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African American universities and colleges -- Administration

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Martin Luther Harvey, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: 171
Scope and Contents The papers of educator and husband of Clarie Collins Harvey, Martin Luther Harvey Jr. include correspondence (circa 1940s-1976), letters of appointment as Dean of Student Affairs at Southern University, invitations, programs, sermons, speeches, news clippings, certificates, photograph albums, memorabilia, and other printed items.A native of Newburgh, New York, Harvey was Dean of Student Affairs at Southern University for thirty-two years. The papers document his activities in...
Dates: Other: 1911-1976

Mary Allen College records

 Collection
Identifier: 662
Content Description Founded as a seminary in 1885, Mary Allen College in Crockett, Texas, was reorganized as a college for women by the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church, USA in 1886.  The college was named for one of its main supporters Mrs. Mary Allen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1924, the Board of Missions for Freedmen changed teaching personnel from Caucasian to African American. In 1933, the institution became co-educational and in 1943 the Presbyterian Church stopped its...
Dates: Other: 1929-1970

Medgar Evers College records

 Collection
Identifier: 250
Content Description Medgar Evers College, located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is a college within the City University of New York system. The college was named for civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed in his native state of Mississippi in 1963. The college opened its doors in 1971 with the idea of expanding educational opportunities for the community's gifted, young, returning veterans, and a diverse adult population. The records include correspondence, rosters, invitations, annual reports,...
Dates: Other: 1976-1982

George Owens oral history interview

 Collection
Identifier: 2445
Content Description

The collection includes a typewritten transcript of an interview with George Owens conducted by Clifton H. Johnson in Jackson, Mississippi, in November 2000. Owens discusses his tenure in the army, at Talladega College, and as President of Tougaloo College. He also discusses student sit-ins, protests, and institutional affairs.

Dates: Other: 2000

Joseph A. Pierce papers

 Collection
Identifier: 299
Scope and Contents The papers of mathematician Joseph A. Pierce, encompasses personal and professional materials documenting his life in academia, as a mathematics professor and as a university administrator. The collection contains correspondence, university records such as report cards and degrees, financial records, ephemera, reports, proposals, publications, and notes. Much of his collection deals with issues in higher education during the civil rights era and briefly touches on the unrest at Texas...
Dates: Created: 1928-1972; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1969; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989