Faculty Member; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Myra Hill Colson was a graduate of the Art Department of Cheyney Institute in Pennsylvania. She also earned a B.S. from Fisk University in 1915. She joined the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in the department of science in 1917. She...
Faculty Member; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Luther Jackson a 1914 graduate of Fisk University joined the faculty at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute in 1922. Professor Jackson would enjoy a long career as a historian of the African American experience in Virginia. Professor...
Politician, Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
William Nash Stevens was a member of the group of African American Legislators who presented a number of bills in February of 1882. The honorable William Nash Stevens presented the bill to move the "COLORED" insane asylum to Dinwiddie.
Faculty Member; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Robert Chissell, a native of Petersburg, Virginia graduated from the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1891 with a AB degree. He joined the faculty later that year as professor of math and history. He later went to medical school and...
English Grammar; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
The second faculty member to publish a book, James T. Phillips stated that in reality this work was only an enlargement upon an earlier work of the author.
Faculty Member; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Tossie P.F. Whiting served in the field of education for more than fifty years. Forty-four of those years she served as Dean of Women and Professor of English at Virginia State College Now Virginia State University.
Anna Laura Lindsay was the first member of the faculty to teach music at Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. She came to the "institute" in 1899 and remained head of the Department for thirty-one years. She also served on the...
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.
Freedom fighter; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
John Henry Hill was born a slave in King and Queen County, Virginia, in March 1828. He escaped from the institution of slavery in 1853 and fled to Canada. He was very active in the Underground Railroad movement in Canada. After the Civil War...
Politician; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Alfred W. Harris was a member of the House of Delegates from 1881-1888. He presented the Bill to establish Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute now Virginia State University.
Miner Teachers College;
Miner Teachers College -- Fraternities and Sororities;
Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Alpha Psi -- Beta Kappa chapter of Kappa Psi was established February 21, 1940 under the direction of Grand Polemarch, James E. Scott; Junior Grand Board Member, Wendell Lucas; Provincial Polemarch, James M. Coggs, and Founders: James Mack,...
Miner Teachers College
Miner Teachers College -- Fraternities and Soroities
Prior to 1934, the DC Board of Education did not sanction Fraternities and Sororities. Mrs. Mary McNeil, a sympathetic Board member, was instrumental in the Board’s decision to allow Miner to have sororities and fraternities.
Alexander, Benjamin;
University of the District of Columbia;
University of the District of Columbia – Presidents
Dr. Benjamin H. Alexander served as the second President of UDC from 1982 through 1983. Dr. Alexander received his MS in Chemistry from Bradley University and his Ph.D in Chemistry from Georgetown University in 1957. He had once served as a member...
Carter, Lisle;
University of the District of Columbia;
University of the District of Columbia – Presidents
Dr. Lisle Carter (1926-) was the first President of UDC. He served from 1977 through 1982. He earned his BS from Dartmouth College, NH in 1945, and his LLB from St. John’s College, in 1951. Prior to serving as UDC’s president, he had been...
