Office of the President records, 1904-1980.

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (born Mary Jane McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and resided as president or leader for myriad African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration'...

Hayes, Roland W., 1887-1977

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Roland Hayes (June 3, 1887 – January 1, 1977) was an American lyric tenor and composer. Critics lauded his abilities and linguistic skills demonstrated with songs in French, German and Italian. Earlier African-American concert artists were not recorded because in their day recording companies were only interested in a vaudeville type of singer. Hayes was one of the first to break this barrier and in 1939 he recorded with Columbia. Earlier both Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson had recorded from t...

Nelson, Alice Moore Dunbar, 1875-1935

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson, a writer, teacher, and activist for African-American Civil rights, was extremely active in state and regional politics. She was married to the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar from 1989 until 1902. She was born on July 19, 1875, as Alice Ruth Moore, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended public school in New Orleans and enrolled in a teacher's training program at Straight University in 1890. Upon receiving her degree in 1892, she began teaching in New Orleans. ...

Coppin, Fanny Jackson, 1837-1913

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Fanny Jackson Coppin (January 8, 1837 – January 21, 1913) was an American educator and missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education. Born a slave in Washington, D.C., her freedom was purchased by an aunt as a child. Another aunt took the little girl in, but Fanny had to go out and work as a domestic, getting schooling whenever she could. By age fourteen, she was supporting herself in Newport, Rhode Island, and struggling for education. “It was in me,” she wrote years later, ...

Biddle, William W. (William Wishart), 1900-

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Allen, Leroy B.

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Cheyney, William G.

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Cheyney-Bartol, Catherine

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Cheyney, Abel B.

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Pennsylvania. General State Authority

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Cheyney Training School for Teachers. Office of the President

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Duckery, James Henry, 1898-

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Home for Destitute Colored Children (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Established in 1855 in Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Records, 1894. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941338 ...

Shelter for Coloured Orphans (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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WILSON, WADE

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Waring, Laura Wheeler, 1887-1948

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State Teachers College at Cheyney. Office of the President

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Cheyney State College

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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Hill, Leslie Pinckney, 1880-1960

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Fifth principal, Institute for Colored Youths, and first president, Cheyney Training School for Teachers, later Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Leslie P. Hill papers, [18--]-1961. (Cheyney University). WorldCat record id: 70972035 ...

Hall, Evangeline Rachel, -1947

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Richard Humphreys Foundation

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Foundation created as the result of a bequest of Richard Humphreys (1750-1832), who left funds for the establishment of a school for blacks in Philadelphia; school was founded as Institute for Colored Youth and a group of Quakers called the Association, and after 1842, the Corporation, oversaw the execution of Humphreys' wishes; actual management of the school was performed by a board of managers which reported to the Corporation; with successive name changes of the school, the Coproration was k...

Cheyney Training School for Teachers

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Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Office of the President

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National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (U.S.)

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Association of Negro Industrial and Secondary Schools

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Institute for Colored Youth at Cheyney

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Pennsylvania State Negro Council

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Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Board of Trustees

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Hill, Jane Clark, -1955

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State Teachers College at Cheyney

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Cheyney State College. Office of the President

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Browne, Hugh M.

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Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

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Cheyney University of Pennsylvania had its beginning in the $10,000 bequest of Quaker philanthropist Richard Humphreys, for the establishment of a school for the education of African Americans; African Institute was founded in 1837 and name changed to Institute for Colored Youth; opened in 1840 with five male students; in 1902 the school moved from Philadelphia to the farm of George Cheyney, 25 miles west of Philadelphia; after being administered by a Quaker Board of Managers for 85 years, the s...

Cheyney, George S.

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Toussaint-Louverture, 1743?-1803

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Reformer, Haitian army officer, and public official. Full name: Pierre Dominique Toussaint Louverture. From the description of Toussaint Louverture papers, 1797-1800. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981003 Haitian general and liberator. From the description of Passport, An 6 [i.e. 1798] Germinal 22, Gonaïves, Haiti, issued to Richard Codman. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14444822 ...

Cheyney Community League (Cheyney, Pa.)

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