BOYD HOUSE (ca. 1915-1920). Formerly the residence of Henry Allen Boyd, president of Citizen’s Bank in Nashville. Served as a dormitory, Honors Center and campus office building. (Still standing)
John R. Lewis (1940- ). Congressman - Georgia. Class of 1967. Led the march across the Edmund Peters Bridge on March 7, 1965 in Selma, Alabama. Involved in sit-in movement in Nashville, Freedom rides and the March on Washington.
Margaret M. Washington (1865-1925). Class of 1884. Booker T. Washington's third wife. Helped found the Tuskegee Woman's Club and the National Association of Colored Women (1896). Edited the Association's main publication, National Association Notes...
David L. Lewis (1936- ). Historian, author. Class of 1956. Works include King: A Critical Biography (1971), Prisoner of Honor: the Dreyfus Affair (1973), When Harlem was in Vogue (1987), W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (1993) and...
Julius Lester (1939- ). Author. Class of 1960. Gained success as a children's author in 1969 with the publication of To Be a Slave, a Newbery Honor Book, and Black Folktales. Subsequent works continued to show his interest in African-American...
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). Scholar, sociologist, poet, novelist, essayist. Class of 1888. Founder and editor of Crisis and Phylon. Authored the American classic, The Souls of Black Folk (1903).
William L. Dawson (1886-1970). Congressman. Class of 1909. Won a seat in the U. S. 78th Congress, representing the First Congressional District of Illinois.
Picture of a Building Named Dillard Hall on Alabma State College Campus. It Was the Home of the Junior High School. A Men's Dormitory When the Picture Was Taken.
