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Watson, John Brown, 1872-1942.

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Black educator known as a persuasive speaker. Born Smith County, Texas; son of Frank and Christial Watson. Brown University class of 1904; also attended Colgate University, Cornell University, and the University of Chicago. At different times taught at Morehouse College, was President of Leland College, and then President of Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College (now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff). Friends and associates included W. E. B. DuBois, Samuel Howard Archer, John Hope, and Booker T. Washington. Active in the Y.M.C.A.

Married Hattie Louise Rutherford of Washington, D.C., a 1907 graduate of Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia); a teacher and a librarian; and a founder and charter member of the first Negro social clubs in America: the Inquirer Club and the Chautauqua Circle, of Atlanta. John Brown and Hattie Rutherford Watson adopted one daughter, Marian-Etoile Watson, a television personality and writer in New York City.

From the description of Papers, [ca. 1869-1942]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 86167659

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Watson, John Brown, 1872-1942.

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John Brown Watson, Ph. D., AM, President of AM & N in the 1930's [graphic]. 1935.

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Hubbell, Ken. John Brown Watson, Ph. D., AM, President of AM & N in the 1930's [graphic].

Title: John Brown Watson, Ph. D., AM, President of AM & N in the 1930's [graphic]. 1935.

Negative of Dr. John Brown Watson, President of Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal (A.M. & N.) College (now called University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. John Brown Watson was born in Smith County, Texas, in 1872 to Frank and Chrystial (Gary) Watson. Watson received degrees from Bishop College in Marshall in 1889, Colgate College, Brown University in 1904, and a honorary master of arts and doctor of laws from Morehouse College. Watson taught at Smith County schools and Morehouse College. In 1907, he married Hattie Rutherford, daughter of S.W. Rutherford who founded of the National Benefit Life Insurance Company of Washington, D.C. Aside from teaching, Watson also worked with the International Young Men's Christian Association among Negroes in 1909 and in the insurance business in Atlanta, Georgia in 1917. While Watson was a receiver for the Atlanta State Savings Bank from 1921 to 1923, he was asked to become the president of Leland College in Baker, Louisiana. Watson served as the President of A.M. & N. from 1928 until his death on December 6, 1942. During his administration, he reinstated a four-year degree program, recruited good faculty members and increased the student population from 36 to 700.

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AM & N, Dr. John Brown Watson (sixth from left) [graphic]. [193-?]

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Arkansas History Commission. AM & N, Dr. John Brown Watson (sixth from left) [graphic].

Title: AM & N, Dr. John Brown Watson (sixth from left) [graphic]. [193-?]

Negative of large group in front of unidentified building at the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal (A.M. & N.) College (now called University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. Sixth from the left is Dr. John Brown Watson, President of A.M. & N. John Brown Watson was born in Smith County, Texas, in 1872 to Frank and Chrystial (Gary) Watson. Watson received degrees from Bishop College in Marshall in 1889, Colgate College, Brown University in 1904, and a honorary master of arts and doctor of laws from Morehouse College. Watson taught at Smith County schools and Morehouse College. In 1907 he married Hattie Rutherford, daughter of S.W. Rutherford who founded of the National Benefit Life Insurance Company of Washington, D.C. Aside from teaching, Watson also worked with the International Young Men's Christian Association among Negroes in 1909 and in the insurance business in Atlanta, Georgia in 1917. While Watson was a receiver for the Atlanta State Savings Bank from 1921 to 1923, he was asked to become the president of Leland College in Baker, Louisiana. Watson served as the President of A.M. & N. from 1928 until his death on December 6, 1942. During his administration, he reinstated a four-year degree program, recuited good faculty members and increased the student popultion from 36 to 700.

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Papers, [ca. 1869-1942].

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Watson, John Brown, 1869-1942. Papers, [ca. 1869-1942].

Title: Papers, [ca. 1869-1942].

Includes personal and professional correspondence, speeches, notes, photographs, and memorabilia of and relating to Watson and his wife, Hattie Louise Rutherford, to their activities as educators, and to their efforts to promote Afro-American culture in the United States. Also includes printed items and museum objects. Themes treated in correspondence, speeches, and articles in the collection include education of American Blacks; role of the Afro-American woman as Christian homemaker and as community leader in education; land reform (creation of farms and rental of property to poor Blacks); Afro-American business; Negro leadership of the era; Afro-American mission in Africa.

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Archer, Samuel Howard.

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Hope, John, 1868-1936.

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Hope, John, 1868-1936.
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Watson, Hattie Louise Rutherford.

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Watson, Hattie Louise Rutherford.
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