The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Henry Ponder

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Henry Ponder

1/29/2007

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2007.033

University president Henry Ponder (1928 - ) served as Vice President of Alabama A&M University, President of Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, President of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and President of Talladega College in Alabama. Ponder was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 1/29/2007, in Hilton Head, South Carolina. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 44m 27s

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Ponder, Henry, 1928-

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Henry Ponder was born on March 28, 1928 in Wewoka, Oklahoma. He was the eleventh of fourteen children born to Frank and Lillie Mae Ponder. Ponder excelled in academics and participated in his high school student council as the class president. After hearing a speech by Mary McCloud Bethune, Ponder was inspired to become a university president. He graduated from Douglas High School in 1946 and attended Langston University, where he pledged the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and received his B.S. degr...