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African Americans--Education (Higher)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Booker T. Washington letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0136
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.
Dates: 1915-11-01

Don Speed Smith Goodloe Papers

 Collection — Box 4312.001: [1005697221]
Identifier: MSS-4312
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...
Dates: 1910 - 1911

Ephraim Madison Henry papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0114
Overview Correspondence, concert programs, and other documents from this Tuskegee Institute graduate
Dates: 1930 - 1947

Jennie C. Lee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0113
Overview Contains photographs, letters, programs, and other materials created and collected by Lee, who was director of the Tuskegee Choir for twenty-five years (1903-1928).
Dates: 1891 - 1938

Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums

 Collection
Identifier: WP-2013001
Overview This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.
Dates: 1909 - 1924

Margaret Moore Photographic Album of Atlanta University Student Life

 Collection
Identifier: 2020-006
Overview One photographic album compiled by Margaret Moore containing eighty-four black-and-white photographs depicting life at Atlanta University between 1917 and 1920.
Dates: 1917 - 1920

S. A. McPherson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0968
Abstract Notes by McPherson while a theological student at Payne University, a college for African Americans founded in 1889 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, and copies of three commencement addresses at Attalla, Etowah County, and Thomas, Jefferson County, Alabama Public Schools.
Dates: 1920 - 1929

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute traveling program advertisement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2110
Abstract An advertisement for the traveling program, "Negro Education in Black Belt of the South," featuring the Tuskegee Quintette.
Dates: circa 1900

Wilhelmina Simpson Robinson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1203
Abstract This collection contains materials relating to Simpson's participation in the Rural Project, a 1930s "program of supervised student teaching in selected crowded rural Negro schools of Montgomery County [Alabama]." It includes photographs of Tankersley, Peoples Village, Ramer, Little Zion, Jericho, and Pine Grove schools, and information about students' activities.
Dates: 1937 - 1938

Williams Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4278
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.
Dates: 1891 - 1999