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...
Campus Building; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
In 1922, the university purchased an old silk mill located on the southside of the campus. This building would be used for vocational education. This building became a part of Simms Hall.
James Barnes came to Virginia State in 1931 as an instructor in health and physical education. He also coached basketball, football, and track during his short stay at Virginia State College for Negroes. There is a street named for Coach Barnes...
African American teachers--In-service training--Louisiana; Biology--Study and teaching--Louisiana
Resource Use Education. Sensing the need for vitalizing science teaching in the state, the Southern University biology department sponsored a science workshop designed to encourage science teachers to utilize natural resources-wild and domestic...
District Of Columbia Teachers College;
District Of Columbia Teachers College -- Buildings
Wilson Teachers College merged with Miner Teachers College to form DCTC.The reason for the merger was to comply with the BROWN V. BOARD decision in 1954 to desegregate public education. DCTC Classes held at the Wilson building after DCTC was...
District Of Columbia Teachers College;
District Of Columbia Teachers College -- Students
DCTC defined its primary purpose as preparing students for teaching in pre-schools, early childhood education centers, elementary, secondary schools, Special Education, and Adult Education.
In 1867, Edmund Asa Ware became the Freedmen's Bureau superintendent of education. He helped to establish Atlanta University. As president of the Board of Trustees, Ware became president in 1869 of the new institution, Atlanta University. he...
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)
In 1913, Dr. Joseph Samuel Clark accepted the position as president of the "New" Southern University, which opened on March 9, 1914.
The area selected...
The interim committee was formulated after the resignation of Dr. Massie on February 1, 1966 to handle the administration of the college. The members left to right are Mr. William Jones, business manager; Dr. Helen G. Edmonds, graduate dean; and...
Dr. Euphemia Haynes (1890-1980) had a distinguished career in Washington. She taught in the public schools of Washington, DC for forty-seven years and was the first woman to chair the DC School Board. She was a teacher of first grade at Garrison...
Miner frequently assumed the leadership during the period 1930-1950 in initiating the study of education and other community problems. Annual conferences were sponsored in cooperation with local educational organizations, to study these matters....
In Gratitude for Service Rendered to Humanity, In the Progress of Youth, and the Vision in the Promotion of Christain Education. Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Adams.
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....
