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.....
[African American][Slavery][Education] Woodson, Carter G. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 is a foundational text in the scholarly study of Black education under slavery. As educator and activist Carter G. Woodson’s first published book, it established the methodological and intellectual framework that would earn him recognition as the.....
[African American Education] [Women's Education] Howard University graduates, 1929, photo archive documenting African American higher education at one of the central institutions established to provide educate for African Americans after the Civil War, during a period when access to advanced schooling remained sharply restricted by segregation, unequal funding, and exclusion.....
Archive of Walter Johnson’s 1933 Atlantic City High School yearbook and related reunion materials documents African American student life within a formally integrated but socially segregated New Jersey public school during the Great Depression. Johnson, a graduating senior in 1933, appears in a yearbook extensively inscribed by classmates whose messages.....
Interracial student life at Canterbury College in Danville, Indiana appears throughout this mid twentieth century photograph archive documenting activities of the Psi Chi sorority and campus organizations during the 1950s. The photographs record the presence of African American students within a predominantly white liberal arts college environment during the era.....
[African American Education][Segregation] Akin, Emma E. A Booker T. Washington School. 1938. Children’s educational narrative describing the founding and development of a Black rural school in Oklahoma modeled on the educational philosophy of Booker T. Washington. Written by a white elementary school teacher working in Drumright, Oklahoma, the book documents.....
African American school and youth education photographs dating from the early twentieth century through the 1940s document the institutional development of Black education during the era of segregation in the United States. The images record students and teachers in grade schools, college classrooms, and organized youth programs, illustrating the growth.....
Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Folk Then and Now published in 1939 presents a historical and sociological study of African and African Diaspora history written by one of the leading intellectual figures of the twentieth century Civil Rights movement. Du Bois, historian, sociologist, and co founder of the National.....
Barrows, Isabel C. (ed.). First Mohonk Conference on the Negro Question Held at Lake Mohonk, Ulster County, New York, June 4, 5, 6, 1890, 1890, records one of the earliest organized national discussions among white reformers, politicians, and intellectuals addressing the status of African Americans in the decades following Reconstruction.....
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.....
Woodson, Carter Godwin. Negro Orators and Their Orations (1925) establishes a documentary record of African American political speech from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century and consolidates a lineage of Black intellectual and rhetorical production at a time when such material was systematically excluded from mainstream historical.....
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.....
African American family photo album documenting Black education, childhood, and family life, likely Cleveland, Ohio, from 1930 through the early 1940s. During the 1930s, Cleveland’s Black population grew with families who had come north through the Great Migration, seeking industrial work, schools, churches, and opportunities unavailable or highly restricted in.....
Photographs of African American nursing students at Howard University and Freedmen’s Hospital dated to the 1920s and 1930s document the training of Black medical personnel within one of the few institutional pathways available during segregation. Produced in the context of Jim Crow restrictions that excluded African Americans from most hospitals.....
Foner, Robert Chrisman (ed.), The Black Scholar, 1971 to 1977, constitutes a significant body of material from the first modern Black studies and research journal in the United States, documenting the development of Black intellectual discourse in the post–Civil Rights and Black Power era. Founded in 1969, the publication brought.....
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College photograph archive. 1940s–1950s. This archive documents student life at a leading historically Black college during the Jim Crow era, recording both everyday social life and organized campus events in the postwar period. The photographs provide primary visual evidence of African American higher education as.....
Rowan County Board of Education, teacher pay vouchers, 1888 and 1892, documenting African American education within the segregated public school system of post-Reconstruction North Carolina. The vouchers record segregated public education and its funding mechanisms through payments to Black teachers approved at the county level. These documents show how African.....
Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Journal of Negro History. 1942–1949. Foundational issues of the journal established by Carter G. Woodson, documenting the institutionalization of Black historical scholarship in the United States and advancing early academic study of African American military service, political rights, and diaspora culture. Issued by the Association for.....
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.....
Lincoln University fraternity and sorority event photograph. circa late 1920s to early 1930s. This photograph documents African American student social and organizational life at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, during segregation, recording a formal gathering associated with a Greek letter society identified in the image as “Delta Alpha Phi.”.....
Omega Psi Phi fraternity photographs documenting various groups of African American fraternities taking part in a group performance in the American Southwest, April 1975. An unidentified Omega Psi Phi member appears to have assembled the group, with several images centering fraternity dance routines, banquet proceedings, and off-site travel that includes.....
Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Journal of Negro History. Archive of three significant issues published between 1943 and 1946 documenting the continued expansion of African American historical scholarship during the Second World War and immediate postwar period. The material records Black intellectual production, historical recovery, and interdisciplinary scholarship through the editorial.....
William E. Anderson. “Thesis Writing: A Guide for the Preparation of the Master’s Thesis”. Montgomery Alabama: The Paragon Press, 1947. Paper wrappers, 56 pages, 9 x 6 in. First edition. Stapled blue wrappers; small name stamp in center and all four corners on front and back wrappers. Pamphlet outlines basic.....
Graduation portrait photographs, circa late nineteenth century, document an African American young woman posed with white classmates in formal studio images marking educational achievement. The pair provides direct visual evidence of Black participation in diploma ceremonies during a period when African American access to advanced schooling remained uneven and often.....
Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Journal of Negro History. Archive of three landmark issues published between 1924 and 1928 documenting the institutional development of African American historical scholarship during the early twentieth century. The material records Black intellectual production, historical recovery, and scholarly publishing through the Association for the Study of.....
