A 1944 photograph of Dr. James E. Shepard, faculty and businessmen at a luncheon held in his honor at White Rock Baptist Church (seated left to right) Ms. Marjorie Shepard, Dr. James T. Taylor, Dr. James E. Shepard, Mrs. Hattie W. Shepard, Ms....
Dr. James E. Shepard standing with Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. outside Benjamin Newton Duke Auditorium. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was a civil rights leader, co-founder of the National Negro Congress, and succeeded his father as Pastor of...
Dr. Alfonso Elder and Dr. James E. Shepard conversing with Miss Nannie Helen Burroughs and Mrs. Catherine Ruth Edwards in front of B. N. Duke Auditorium. Miss Nannie Helen Burroughs helped establish the National Association of Colored Women and...
Miss Mattawilda Dobbs (left) international known opera singer greets North Carolina College president Dr. Albert N. Whiting. Mrs. Sylvia Olden Lee (center) is her accompanist on tour. Miss Dobbs performed at North Carolina College while she was on...
Marian Anderson, one of the greatest singers in her day performed several times at North Carolina College for Negroes, now North Carolina Central University, as a part of the Lyceum Series in 1932, 1942, and 1946. Marian Anderson was the first...
