Dwight O.W. Holmes collection, 1897-1948.

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...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Holmes, Dwight Oliver Wendell, 1877-1963

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Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes was the president of Morgan State College in Baltimore, Maryland from 1937 to 1948. He was also active in civic and welfare work. From the guide to the Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes papers, 1940-1966, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) Educator, teacher, principal, dean, and college administrator, of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md.; president of Morgan ...

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Morgan College

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Morgan State College

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Maryland. Governor's Commission on Problems Affecting the Negro Population

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