Head Coach Henry A. Kean Was Honored For a Job Well Done During the Half-Time Activity for the Homecoming Game. For His Thirty-Three Years of Outstanding Achievements in Coaching and Leadership in Athletics; and For the Part He Has Played in the...
Mayberry, Emma N. [Nesbit]; Home economics teachers--Louisiana; Southern University and A & M College--Faculty
Black and white portrait of Emma N. Mayberry, Southern University's first Director of Home Economics. She also started the first sorority chapter on the campus of Southern in 1932. This sorority is: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friends and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is February, 1889 vol. 1 no. 7.
HENDERSON A. JOHNSON GYMNASIUM (1950). Named in honor of outstanding Fisk athlete, coach, dean of men and director of physical education. (Still standing)
HENDERSON A. JOHNSON GYMNASIUM (1950). Named in honor of outstanding Fisk athlete, coach, dean of men and director of physical education. (Still standing)
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
"Roland Hayes (1887-1977).Tenor, classical concert singer. Enrolled at Fisk University in 1905 and became a Fisk Jubilee Singer. Performed at many great concert venues in America and in Europe. First African-American singer to achieve...
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
Charles S. Johnson (1893-1956). The sixth and first African-American president of Fisk University (1947-1956). Founded the renowned Fisk University Race Relations Institute in 1944.
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
George L. White (1838-1894). Administrator, educator, Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Served as business manager, treasurer, and vocal music instructor at Fisk University. Organized the first group of Jubilee Singers and in 1871 urged them to...
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
Robert E. Hayden (1913-1980). Poet, essayist, lyricist, educator. Served as professor of English for over twenty years at Fisk University. Poet of national rank whose verses won him many honors such as the Grand Prix de la Poesie at the First World...
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
Aaron Douglas (1900- 1979). Painter, muralist. Important visual artist during the Harlem Renaissance. Illustrated James Weldon Johnson's book of poetic sermons, God's Trombones. Founded the Art Department at Fisk University and taught there for...
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....
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. James Edward Shepard (November 3, 1875-October 6, 1947) founded the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua in 1910. He was the school's first president and served in that position from 1909 until his death on October 6, 1947. Prior...
Radio – Washington (D.C.) -- University of the District of Columbia;
WUDC
WUDC was a 4,000-watt station, licensed to the University of the District of Columbia – hence the call letters – WUDC. UDC had to sell its radio station to raise the money it needed as an educational institution. WUDC was never a financial...
Black and white photograph of Veda Rankin. The 49th "Miss Southern", a senior speech and theatre major from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An outstanding student in both academics and extra-curricular activities. A memeber of various...
Color photograph of GiGi Thomas. The 52nd "Miss Southern", senior accounting major from Zachary, Louisiana. An outstanding student in both academics and extra-curricular activities. A memeber of various organizations; Alpha Kappa...
