Hampton Institute

Content Description This collection contains a photograph is of Mabel Love, who was a national officer of the Delta Sigma Theta, and members of three New Orleans chapters, namely Alpha Eta Sigma, Beta Gamma chapter of Dillard University, and the Gamma Alpha chapter of Xavier University. Persons identified by Jessie C. Dent include: Vera Baranco, Elise Rousseve, Naomi Evans, Thelma Johnson Mitchell, Adeline Lewis, Jessie Dent, Estelle Baranco Turpin, Emma Adams, Vivan Osborne Marsh, Sylvia Labat, Lydia Davis,...

Scope and Contents The papers of William H. Moses, Jr., architect, columnist, and founder of the architecture program at the Hampton Institute in Virginia mainly consist of manuscript drafts of his weekly column, “A Dark Point of View,” published in The New Observer and The Carolinian. This column was published from 1969 to 1986 and Moses described it as, “A collection of Black concerns expressed by a Black columnist.” In “A Dark Point of View,”...