Yvone Y. Clark, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Has the Distinction of Being the First African American Woman to Earn a Masters Degree in Engineering. Y.Y. Clark Is Known as the "First Lady" of the Tennessee State University...
Wyomia Tyus Was the First Olympic Athlete to Successfully Defend Her Sprint Title in a Subsequent Olympiad. At the 1964 Games in Tokyo, Tyus Ran the 100-Meter Dash in 11.2 Seconds in the Preliminary Heats, Tying Wilma Rudolph's World Records, and...
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 1902, no. 126.
William H. Miles Was Born a Slave In 1828 and Freed In 1854. He Joined the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) In 1855 and the Church Licensed Him to Preach in 1857. Over the Next 22 Years, He Lead a Church That Grew Into One of the Largest In the...
Upon the death of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and president of the college, the Board of Trustees appointed an interim committee (1947) consisting of Miss Ruth Rush, dean of women and (not pictured) Dr. Albert T. Turner, dean of the School of...
Upon the death of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and president of the college, the Board of Trustees appointed an Interim Committee (1947) consisting of Dr. Albert T. Turner, Dean of the School of Law, and (not pictured) Dr. Albert E. Manley, Dean...
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 1901, no. 116.
University of the District of Columbia;
University of the District of Columbia – Buildings;
University of the District of Columbia. Mt. Vernon Campus
UDC operated a Mount Vernon Campus for several years. In 1978, Congress approved construction of the Mt. Vernon Square Campus of UDC, but the DC Appropriations Committee refused to approve the funding. Eventually, UDC sold its Mt. Vernon campus and...
Two Years After the Close of the Civil War, Saint Augustine’s Normal School and Collegiate Was Incorporated in July, 1867. The School Opened in January 1868 at the Union Army Barracks on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, But Known Then as...
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.
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.
This speech is located on side B of the cassette. "Paradigms of Archivist: Sara Jackson, James Walker and Harold Pinkett". Harold Pinkett was the first African American to be appointed an archivist at the National Archive. He served...
College theater -- Washington (D.C.) -- Miner Teachers College;
Miner Teachers College
This play was intended as part of a week-long celebration of what Eugene A. Clark, President of Miner Teachers College, referred to as “a hundred years of educational effort by recapitulating the story of significant characters, events, and...
This building was Named in honor of Ruth Gwendolyn Rush, Dean of Women, teacher of education, and director of Student Teaching (1926-1948). She gave thirty-eight years of service to the university. Ruth Gwendolyn Rush Residence Hall was...
This building was named in honor of Annie Day Robinson Shepard, devoted wife of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder of North Carolina Central University for her contributions and years of service to the students and the university. Mrs. Shepard wrote...
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...
This building named in honor of Harold W. Alexander and Wayne M. Dunn for their contributions and service to the university’s Academic Skills Program. This building served as the main Campus Dining Hall from 1930 until the construction of W. G....
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friends and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institutions progress and present needs. This issue is October, 1891 no. 30.
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 1899, no. 105.
