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.
This building was located in New Orleans between Magazine and Soniat Streets. The original site for Southern University was in an old building on Calliope Street (No. 158) in New Orleans in 1881. This building had previously housed the Hebrew...
Chemical laboratories--Louisiana; Southern University and A & M College--Buildings
The scientific courses of the University were greatly aided by the Morrill Fund of 1890. The courses were taught largely to meet the conditions of the appropriation and to give the pupils "scientific agriculture and scientific...
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...
Cooke, Paul;
College presidents – Washington (D.C.) -- District of Columbia Teachers College;
District Of Columbia Teachers College;
District Of Columbia Teachers College – Presidents
Dr. Paul P. Cooke, was the third president of DCTC and served from 1966 through 1974.
Dr. Cooke has lived in the District of Columbia since 1921, when his family moved from Harlem, New York. He graduated from Dunbar High School. He earned a BA...
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),...
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),...
Ella Sheppard oftern considered the backbone of the group, was born in Nashville, Tennessee on February 4, 1851. Her father was operated a livery stable in Nashville, purchased his freedom for $1800 and purchased Ella's freedom for $350. He tried...
Greene Evans, the most widely traveled of the singers was born on September 1, 1848. His master moved all over the south to escape the Union army. Finally, Evans met a Yankee officer in Selma, Alabama and became his servant for two years. In 1868,...
Thomas Rutling was born in Wilson County, Tennessee in 1854. His father and brother were sold away from him before he was two years old. He stated on the plantation until 1865, when he moved to Nashville and soon after went to Fisk.
LITTLE THEATER. Oldest structure on the Fisk University campus. Part of the original army hospital barracks at Fisk University. Moved to the present location in 1873. Has served as the site for dramatic productions and classes since 1935. (Still...
LITTLE THEATER. Oldest structure on the Fisk University campus. Part of the original army hospital barracks at Fisk University. Moved to the present location in 1873. Has served as the site for dramatic productions and classes since 1935. (Still...
Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart, b. 1837 d. 1921; Governors--Louisiana
Founder and sponsor of the relocation of Southern University. Pinchback served as Senator in the Louisiana State Senate in 1867, Lieutenant Governor in 1871 and Governor of Louisiana from December 9, 1872 to January 13, 1873 [35 days].
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 February 1898, no. 89.
