African American; Educator; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
He was the first science teacher at the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute now Virginia State University. Mr. Colson was an 1883 graduate of Dartmouth College. He served as acting principal in 1885 replacing the first principal James...
An invitation to the 1886 Anniversary of the College Lyceum. The invitation was sent by Mr. Walter Fayerman to his former principal W. L. Hamlin. Mr. Fayerman will go on and become the first college graduate of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate...
Secretary; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Charles James Daniel was born in Orange County, Virginia. Before coming to the Institute he had studied at Howard University, and was a graduate of the Richmond Institute in 1878. He taught school in Louisa County, Virginia, and from 1882 to...
Model School; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
A group of students, their teacher and the president pose in front of the university model school. The model school will later become the elementary school.
Bishop Henry Beard Delany Was the First African American to Become an Episcopal Bishop in North Carolina and the Second With His Statue In the Church In the United States.
Mary Branch graduated from the Normal Department at Virginia State Normal and Collegiate in 1897. She returned to the campus in 1905 as an instructor and remained until 1920. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of...
The Baton Rouge Academy, an institution sponsored by the Fourth District Missionary Baptist Association of Louisiana for black boys and girls. In 1892, a suggestion was made that the Fourth District Association purchase a tract of land for...
Fisk Graduates at Virginia State; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
This class picture from Fisk University in 1915 shows two future faculty members at Virginia State University. On the first row, reading left to right, the third person is Felicia D. Anderson, who will write the words to the Alma Mater and also...
Not many HBCUs had Reserve Officers Training Corps, at the beginning of World War I. James Nicholas, who will graduate from Virginia State and become a full professor at Virginia State and Rector of the Board of Visitors, was a member of this corp.
John M. Ellison was an associate professor of sociology. He was a 1925 graduate of Virginia Union University. Dr. Ellison will become the first African American president of Virginia Union University.
Booker T. Washington, is Hampton's Most Honored Graduate. After Hearing About a School for Colored People, He Set Off and Arrived at Hampton. He Enrolled at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute on October 5, 1872. He Studied to Become a...
Dr. Alonzo G. Moron Was the Eighth President of Hampton Institute and the First African American to Hold the Position at the School. He Served From 1948-1959. He Was Also the First Hampton Institute Graduate to Become President of the School.
Dr. Harry Van Buren Richardson (1901-1990), was the founder and first President of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Richardson received a bachelor's degree in history from Western Reserve University (1925),...
