Southern University and A & M College--Buildings; Building construction--Louisiana--Baton Rouge
Laying of First Brick Work on Academic Building. The completion of this building gave it the credit of being the most complete school building in the State of Louisiana for Negroes. People came from all sections of the State to see this new state...
Campus Organization; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Before there was a ROTC at Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute there was an attempt to organize a core similar to the one which was at Hampton. This was an organization from 1914 though 1919.
Southern University and A & M College--Buildings; Home economics centers
[Industrial Building for Girls]. This structure was built in 1920 and later known as the Home Economics Building. This two-story masonry building features a very slightly projecting central section (suggestive of a pavilion) with an entrance...
Faculty Member; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
Otelia Shields Howard was a graduate of Fisk University in 1921. She edited what was called the Campus Review which was published in 1929. Her father, James Shields, was in the first class that graduated from Virginia Normal and Collegiate...
Debating Contest; Debating League; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
The fifth annual debating contest of the Triangular Debating League, which consisted of South Carolina State A. and M. College (South Carolina State Agricultural and Mechanical College), North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, and...
Named After the School's Fifth President, Brown Hall Was Built in 1927 at a Cost of 150,000, Half of Which Was Donated By the John D. Rockefeller General Education Board. Brown Hall Served as the College's Administration Building.
[Martin L. Harvey Chapel/Auditorium]. This brick structure was built in 1928. Resembling a monumental one-story structure but actually two stories in height, the brick auditorium building is composed of two masses- -a moderately sized rectangular...
Campus Newsletter; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
The third attempt to establish a student publication at Virginia State was named The Campus Review. The earliest, the Clarion, lasted from 1914-1915. The second was the Crater Scroll, which ran from 1924-1925. The Campus Review was published...
"DOWN" The Old Laboratory School which was built in 1930 to serve high school students on the campus of Southern University Baton Rouge was demolished to make room for the new $7.4 million dollar John B. Cade...
Southern University and A & M College--Students; Debates
Southern Wins Championship in Inter-Collegiate Debate.
Appearing left to right-sitting: Miss Marguerite Malarcher, Lloyd Williams, Miss Alma Rigmaiden; standing: ...
The drawing was done by Samuel A. Madden a 1934 graduate of Virginia State College for Negroes. The monument was to be constructed using the bricks from the old Virginia Hall which was being torn down in 1937.
