African Americans--Education (Higher)

Scope and Contents This collection highlights the efforts of African American educator Don Speed Smith Goodloe to improve secondary education for African American students in Maryland’s segregated educational system from 1910 to 1911. The collection is composed of two series: Correspondence, 1910-1911, and Records for the Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie for the Training of Colored Youth, also known as the Maryland State Normal School No. 3. The collection is strong in incoming correspondence as it...

Overview Correspondence, concert programs, and other documents from this Tuskegee Institute graduate

Scope and Contents Four letters from different writers to Jennie W. Miller of Champaign, Illinois. The first letter, writtein in 1920, from Edna W. G., also of Champaign, praising Miller as the best Sunday school teacher. The second letter, written in 1923, by Sara M. Himrod of Oakhaven, Arkansas, thanking her for inviting the Himrods to Champaign for their son's graduation excercises. The third, written by Jennie Whitmore of Burbank, Ohio, in 1924, to thank her kindness in taking in Whitmore's son. The last...

Overview One photographic album compiled by Margaret Moore containing eighty-four black-and-white photographs depicting life at Atlanta University between 1917 and 1920.

Abstract An advertisement for the traveling program, "Negro Education in Black Belt of the South," featuring the Tuskegee Quintette.

Overview Letter from Booker T. Washington asking for financial support for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The letter is dated November 12, 1915, two days before Washington's death.

Overview Papers related to the Williams family of Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest are two notebooks belonging to Barabara Adeline Williams, one of which she kept while in nursing school and the other while she was attaining her high school diploma.