Hbcus (8 results)

Wraps. Condition: Good. Wraps. A journal devoted to domestic US missionary activities, with this issue containing articles on several Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) including Atlanta University, Fisk University and Straight University. There are a few short pieces on Native Americans, including a paragraph from Oahe. GOOD condition. Moderate foxing, toning and soiling to the covers, with a small address label on the rear cover. Minor curling. A few small tears along the edges.…

Condition: Overall very good plus. A collection of pages and photographs from the scrapbook of a Hampton Institute student. The student likely graduated in 1929, as several of the clippings come from what appears to be a graduation program for that year. Other clippings include two editorials and the article "Are Negro Writers Exploiting Their People?" from The Hampton Script; printed photos likely from a yearbook or similar publication showing farming, theater, and student athletes; and an article from the Afro-American about then-Hampton professor Allison Davis and his strident critique of African American intellectual leaders. The photographs mainly show young people, likely Hampton students. They pose together outside campus buildings, at a formal event, outside a house, and at a park by a body of water. In one shot, a young man in Army uniform, with Master Sergeant insignia, stands at attention; in another a group of young men pose in the uniform of a Hampton sports team. Of interest to historians of Hampton and of the lives of young African Americans in the area in the late 20s. . Five scrapbook pages of clippings and 25 loose photographs. Photographs mainly measuring 2 ¾ x 4 ½ inches and 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Scrapbook pages with one clipping torn off; generally excellent. Photograph conditions vary, generally very good.…

A photo of Southern University New Orleans students milling around the American flag on campus, with a small unidentified flag apparently affixed to the campus building in the background. The caption claims that the students are "removing" the US flag and raising a "black liberation flag," though no one appears to be touching the US flag's halyard. Newspaper reporting states that students had removed and replaced the flag a week prior; their flag had flown for less than ten minutes before police charged the group, replaced the flag, and maced the students, arresting 27 of them.[1] The students were demanding the institution of Black liberation and Black studies programs, and the removal of Dean of Students Emmett Bashful. [1] "Classes Reopen Normally At Southern University," The Daily Iberian, April 10, 1969, 9. Staining across photograph; very good plus. Photograph measuring 9 ¾ x 8 inches. With manuscript caption, date stamp, and later sticker verso.…

Condition: Near fine. A letter from Reverend Edward Parmlee Smith (18271876), then a field secretary of the American Missionary Association, requesting a free or half-priced Singer sewing machine for the "colored young men & women" who are "working their way through an education" at Howard University. The AMA was initially formed as an abolitionist society; following the Civil War, it funded churches and schools for freed African Americans. One such school is Howard University in Washington, D.C., founded in 1867. Smith himself co-founded Fisk University in Nashville. Following Smith's tenure at the AMA, he would be appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and later elected president of Howard. Besides the Freedmen's Bureau, funding for HBCUs at the time largely came from donations, both from individual philanthropists and through organizations like the AMA. However, precedent for direct donations of equipment is less clear, nor is it known whether Singer honored Parmlee's request. Single one-page letter measuring 8 x 9 ¾ inches.…

A felt pennant likely from Saint Paul's College, an HBCU in Lawrenceville, Virginia. The college was founded in 1888 as Saint Paul Normal and Industrial School by Protestant Episcopal priest James Solomon Russell. Accredited in the 1920s, it contributed a large percentage of elementary and secondary school teachers to Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland. The college closed in 2013 due to financial issues and loss of accreditation. Toned with many small holes; very good minus. Felt pennant measuring 15 ½ x 43 inches. Inscribed "Hilda Colthroy" on tag.…

Stowe Teachers College was established by the St. Louis public school system in 1890 as Sumner Teachers College, a Black-only teaching school, alongside the white-only Harris Teachers College. In 1929 Sumner was renamed after abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. The two colleges merged in 1954 when St. Louis schools integrated, and became the HBCU Harris-Stowe State University. Offered here is a photo album from the mid-1940s belonging to an unknown student at Stowe. Shots include students looking up at and posing in front of the school's lintel, and young men and women posing together, carrying schoolbooks, sitting at desks studying, and spending time outside of what appear to be campus buildings. Also included is an invitation to the school's 1944 spring prom, held in Kiel Auditorium. There are also portraits of the photographer's girlfriends, shots of the friends spending time in and around 1940s St. Louis, and shots likely from the photographer's childhood in Missouri, which would be around the 1920s. Later photos look to be from military training-dated around 1943-in Utah and Hawai'i. Of interest to historians of Stowe, HBCUs, and education shortly prior to integration. Overall very good to excellent. 10 x 12 ½ inch photo album containing approximately 225 photos measuring approximately 5 x 7 ½ inches and smaller, with some later photos (including later prints of older photos) unaffixed. Album excellent. Conditions of photos vary; generally good to excellent.…

Thirty-nine photographs, mainly showing African American college students on campus: at lectures, studying, chatting, and especially in science classesmany are portraits of students with various scientific implements, from microscopes to telescopes. One photo shows William J. Trent, Jr., at a fundraiser for the United Negro College Fund; two are captioned "Dillard" and "Xavier", likely the two Louisiana universities that are UNCF member institutions. The UNCF is an organization that provides college scholarships mainly to Black students and grants to a number of HBCUs. Trent founded the organization in 1944 with Tuskegee President Fredrick D. Patterson and educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune; he was the executive director of the organization from 1944 to 1964, suggesting that the photographs are promotional and date to this period. With Fine contrast; some damage to edges; overall Near Fine. Thirty-nine photographs: sixteen measuring 11 x 13 ½ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock; twenty-three measuring 8 x 10 inches, mounted on mats measuring 11 x 14 inches.…

Tuskegee University was founded in July 1881 as the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers by formerly enslaved leader Lewis Adams and former Confederate Colonel and Alabama senator W.F. Foster, who had promised Adams a school for African-Americans in Macon County if Adams could secure him the black vote. Tuskegee's first principal was Booker T. Washington, also formerly enslaved and a graduate of the Hampton Institute and Wayland Seminary. In 1882, Washington purchased the Miller plantation as a campus for Tuskegee. Offered here are six photographs of the Tuskegee campus dating to the early 1900s. These mainly document the agricultural side of the Tuskegee students' education: photographs show the cabbage patch, dairy barn, swine herd, and students plowing a field with mules. There is also a photograph of the Institute's power plant and of "Wayside Inn," an early dormitory that looks to be an original building of the Miller plantation. Under Washington's leadership, students at Tuskegee were trained in teaching but also in farming and trades, and typically paid their educational expenses through agricultural and other labor on campus. Some holes, including two affecting image, paper captions stapled to margins, else near fine; generally very good or better with excellent contrast Six photographs, approximately 8 x 10 inches. Inventory numbers and signature of Hyman, photographer, whose first name is unknown, in negatives.…