Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
Arna Bontemps (1902-1973). Poet, novelist, essayist, educator, librarian. Author of God Sends Sunday (1931) and Black Thunder (1936). Wrote several children's books with Jack Conroy, including Sam Patch (1951). Received the Jane Addams Children's...
Dr. Charles Clinton Spaulding was one of the six incorporators of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, now North Carolina Central University. Dr. Charles Spaulding was a businessman, trustee and financial supporter of the...
Dr. James E. Shepard standing with Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. outside Benjamin Newton Duke Auditorium. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was a civil rights leader, co-founder of the National Negro Congress, and succeeded his father as Pastor of...
Dr. John W.E. Bowen took office as the third president of Gammon Theological Seminary on October 12, 1906. He became noted as the "first negro ever to hold the post".
Henry Allen Boyd Was Editor of Nashville Globe Newspaper From 1905-1959. Napier and Boyd Successfully Helped to Persuade the State to Build the Negro State Normal School in Davidson County. A Member of the Nashville's Negro Board of Trade, Boyd...
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). Poet, essayist, lyricist. Legendary poet who wrote the universally admired work, The Creation (1927). With his brother, co-authored The Negro National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. Served as the Adam K....
Jane E. Elliott, Founded the Cafeteria System at Tennessee A and I State College in 1924, the First to be Established in a Negro College and the Original One It is Believed, to be Established in the South. She Commanded National Attention to This...
National Council of Nego Women Meeting at Bethune-Cookman College. the Founder, Mary McCleod Bethune, Is in Front Row Center; The Present President, Dorothy Height, Is Second From Left on the Back Row and Eva Bowman Is at Far Right on Front Row.
This Is the Executive Committee of the "National Negro Business League". The Purpose of This League Is to Bring Business Men Together for Mutural co-Operation and Trade Advancement. Attorney James C. Napier Is Second From Right on the...
Lee Pinkerton (second from right) vice president of White Laboratories, Kenilworth, N. J., displays a volume of the Negro Heritage Library to Samuel V. Thomas, president of the North Carolina College Student Government Association; Miss Queen E....
Jones, John S. [Sebastian], 1872-1959;
Louisiana Colored Teachers' Association;
African Americans--Education--Louisiana; Southern University and A & M College--Administration
Portrait of John Sebastian Jones, first Dean of Southern University in Baton Rouge.
