W. Sherman Savage Collection, c.1950-1981

Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981

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Historian; teacher of American history at Clark University, Smith College, and Northwestern University; research associate at the Henry E. Huntington Library; author of Westward Expansion (1949) and Frederick Jackson Turner (1973). From the description of Ray Allen Billington papers relating to the fourth edition of Westward expansion, 1967-ca. 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80908689 From the description of Ray Allen Billington papers relating to the fourth edition of ...

Ohio State University. Dept. of History.

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Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.).

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Greene, Lorenzo J. (Lorenzo Johnston), 1899-1988

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African American historian, educator, editor, and civil rights and social activist; d. 1988. From the description of Papers, 1680-1988 (bulk 1933-1972). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77585806 African American historian, educator, editor, and civil rights and social activist. From the description of Lorenzo Johnston Greene papers, 1680-1988 (bulk 1933-1972). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 498421132 Biographical Note ...

Nunis, Doyce Blackman

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Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity

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Lincoln University (Jefferson City, Mo.)

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Lincoln University was founded as Lincoln Institute by the white officers and black enlisted men of the 62nd and 65th U.S. Colored infantries of the Civil War who donated $6400 to help fund the school; opened Sept. 17, 1866 in Jefferson City, Mo., with a class of two and with Lt. Richard B. Foster, a white officer of the 62nd U.S. Colored Infantry, as principal; college department was added in 1887; Lincoln Institute formally became a state institution in 1879 with the deeding of the property to...

University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Television Dept.

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Leidesdorff, William A. (William Alexander), 1810-1848

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William A. Leidesdorff, early California trader and official, was born in the Danish West Indies of a Danish father and mulatto mother. In 1841 he came to California as master of the ship "Julia Ann." He engaged in trade between Hawaii and San Francsico, and afterwards began a general exporting business in San Francisco. Leidesdorff became a Mexican citizen in 1844 and received a grant for Rancho Rio de los Americanos, east of Fort Sutter. The next year he was appointed vice-consul of the United...

California State university, Los Angeles

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Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913

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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; b. ca. 1822–d. March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Har...

Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Savage, W. Sherman (William Sherman)

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W. Sherman Savage remained deeply involved in education throughout his adult life, both as a teacher and as a scholar. Born in Wattsville, Accomac County, Virginia, Savage received a bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1917. He held various teaching positions in Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma, before becoming professor of history at Lincoln University of Missouri (Jefferson City, Missouri) in 1921. Despite the racial barriers in place at most universities, Savage a...