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...
John H. Franklin (1915- ). Historian, educator, author. Class of 1935. Works include From Slavery to Freedom (1947), Racial Equality in America (1976) and Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (2005). Awarded the...
John W. Work III (1901-1967). Educator, composer. Class of 1923. Served the University for forty years as director of the Jubilee Singers, professor of music and conductor of the Men's Glee Club. His father and uncle wrote the Fisk University Alma...
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...
George E. Haynes (1880-1960). Sociologist, author, educator. Class of 1903. First black graduate of a school of social work (1910) and first black to receive a Ph.D from Columbia University.
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
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...
St. Elmo Brady (1884-1961). Educator, chemist. Class of 1908. First African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1916. Developed the chemistry departments at Fisk, Tuskegee, Howard and Tougaloo.
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 1886, no. 3.
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 December 1888, vol. 1 no. 5.
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 March, 1889 vol. 1 no. 8.
Miner, Myrtilla
Miner Normal School
Moten, Lucy
School principals -- Washington (D.C.) -- Miner Normal School
The prominent African American educator, Dr. Lucy Moten (1851-1933), was the first African American principal of Miner Normal School. She served in this capacity from 1883 until 1921. At the time she was principal, Miner was a two-year public...
James C. Napier (1845-1940), Lawyer, Branker, Educator, Local Politician and Frequent Federal Office-Holder Was a Leader in the Drive to Establish Tennessee State University. Attorney Napier Appealed Many Time to the Committee on Agriculture,...
Jones, John S. [Sebastian], 1872-1959;
Louisiana Colored Teachers' Association;
African Americans--Education--Louisiana; Southern University and A & M College--Administration
Portrait of John Sebastian Jones, first Dean of Southern University in Baton Rouge.
William Gaston Pearson was one of the six incorporators of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, now North Carolina Central University. William G. Pearson was an educator and successful businessman. Mr. Pearson was the principal...
DeLong, Mary A. [Ann] Craig, 1865-1960; Southern University and A & M College--Students
Black and white photograph of Mary A. Craig DeLong. She was Southern's first student to enter the premises at Southern University when it was chartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
College presidents – Washington (D.C.) -- Wilson Teachers College;
Higbie, Edgar C.;
Wilson Teachers College;
Wilson Teachers College -- Presidents
Dr. Higbie (1875- 1944) was appointed president of Wilson Teachers College in 1931. Dr. Higbie retired as President of Wilson Teachers College in February 1941, because of ill health. He remained on the faculty until his death in 1944.
Higbie was...
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...
This building was named in honor of William Gaston Pearson, a businessmen, educator, an incorporator of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, and one of the original organizers of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. ...
