[African American] [Education] Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College. Normal, Alabama. Announcement for 1957-1958 Session. September 5 – May 26. “The aim of the college is to provide students an opportunity to secure a functional education in terms of individual an social needs. This includes the preparation of workers in Home.....
[African American] [Education] Success of Spelman, Morehouse, and Atlanta’s HBCUs. 1934. “Atlanta’s Negro University System Model for South.” From The City Builder, Official Publication, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, August, 1934. Large photo-illustrated image of Atlanta University Administrative Building (now Clark Atlanta University).8 fold-out pages. 9 x 4 in. “The Atlanta.....
Howard Medical Club of New York formal banquet photograph identifying dean Numa Pompilius Garfield Adams among various Black physicians, spouses, and guests at the Harlem YWCA on January 17, 1939. Adams served as dean of Howard University’s College of Medicine from 1929 until his death in 1940, and Howard identifies.....
[African American Education] Tuskegee University felt pennant. Measuring 28' in length. Tuskegee Institute, now known as Tuskegee University, is a private historically Black University, founded by notable Black educator, Booker T. Washington in Alabama. Washington gradually attracted notable scholars to Tuskegee, including the botanist George Washington Carver, would become President.....
The Tiger, the official 1964 yearbook of Grambling College (now Grambling State University), a historically Black institution in Grambling, Louisiana. The yearbook is a hardcover volume measuring approximately 12 x 9 inches, bound in textured black cloth with the title and year embossed in gold on the front cover. The.....
Moore, Lewis B. correspondence, 1916 to 1923, documents the role of a leading African American educator in shaping professional pathways for Black teachers within segregated educational systems and wartime conditions. Lewis Baxter Moore, founding dean of the Teachers’ College at Howard University and among the earliest African Americans to earn.....
Social and athletic life of partially identified Black male college students at one of the oldest historically black universities, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1854 in Pennsylvania, Lincoln University became an important center for Black intellectual development, producing generations of educators, clergy, political leaders, and professionals during the era of.....
Unidentified photographer, North Carolina A&T State University graduation photo archive, 1940s, documents African American higher education and student life at a historically Black college during the mid-20th century, providing visual evidence of academic achievement, social networks, and institutional development. Founded in 1891 to educate Black students in agriculture, mechanical arts.....
[HBCU] Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph of a Class at HBCU Wiley College, 1946. Black and white photo of Professor Smith and 18 students. 5 x 6 ¾ in. Captioned recto center bottom image “Prof Smith and his German Class”. Handwritten in black in on verso: “Summer Class of 1946” and.....
