Upon the death of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and President of the College, the Board of Trustees appointed an Interim Committee(1947) consisting of Dr. Albert E. Manley, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and (not pictured) Miss Ruth G....
Upon the death of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and president of the college, the Board of Trustees appointed an Interim Committee (1947) consisting of Dr. Albert T. Turner, Dean of the School of Law, and (not pictured) Dr. Albert E. Manley, Dean...
Dr. Alfonso Elder (February 26, 1898-August 1974) became the second president of North Carolina College at Durham on January 20, 1948. Dr. Elder previously served as head of the Graduate Department of Education and also had served as the Dean of...
Dr. Julius Chambers became the eighth chancellor of North Carolina Central University on January 1, 1993. Dr. Chambers received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history From North Carolina College at Durham in 1958 and he was the first alumnus to serve...
Federal City College was housed in some 16 temporary facilities in DC. In the early 1970s, FCC was attempting to find permanent campus for FCC to be located at Mt. Vernon Square, home of the DC Public Library. A second permanent campus was sought...
Federal City College;
Seals (Numismatics) -- Washington (D.C.) -- Federal City College
College seal of the Federal City College (FCC). Federal City College was formed in 1968 as a college of liberal arts and sciences to provide affordable education to any DC resident who graduated from high school or had a GED. FCC was the first...
This building was named in honor of Dr. Helen Gray Edmonds, a long-time teacher, chair in the Department of History and Social Sciences, and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Edmonds also served as a member of the interim...
Kay G. Roberts (1950- ). Symphony director, violinist, educator. Class of 1972. First women to earn the Doctorate of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting from Yale University. Guest conductor for the Boston, Cleveland, and Dallas symphonies and...
Bennett College -- Campus Building; College Buildings; Buildings; Library
Kent Hall Was Established in 1884 to Educate Young Black Girls in the Domestic Arts of a Christian Home. This Buiding Also Served as the Library for the College Until 1939.
Workmen from the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program erecting the North Carolina College at Durham Marker (G-53) denoting the founding of North Carolina College at Durham in 1910 by Dr. James E. Shepard. The marker was cast in 1950...
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...
Upon the death of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and president of the college, the Board of Trustees appointed an interim committee (1947) consisting of Miss Ruth Rush, dean of women and (not pictured) Dr. Albert T. Turner, dean of the School of...
Founders' Day commemorations--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Standing left to right: Dean John Sebastian Jones, Academic department or Teachers training program and long time teacher in Lake Charles, Louisiana; Dr. Joseph Samuel Clark, late President of Southern University and A&M College; Mrs. Octavia...
