Program booklets, 1944-1983.

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Program booklets, 1944-1983.

Materials include May Day programs (1957-1959, 1962); exhibition and theater programs (1952-1953, 1980, 1982); festival and special programs (1953, 1966, 1978, 1983); awards programs (1944, 1966, 1973-1980); and fashion shows, Christmas, seminars, and other miscellaneous programs.

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Oldest historically black university in the South founded in 1865 as Raleigh Institute; renamed Shaw Collegiate Institute in 1870 in honor of benefactor, Elijah Shaw, of Wales, Mass.; in 1875 an act of the North Carolina General Assembly chartered the university as The Shaw University; originally founded to teach freedmen theology and Biblical interpretation, however within 15 years of its founding the institution began to broaden its curriculum. From the description of Commencement ...