African American presidents' portraits, [19--].

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African American presidents' portraits, [19--].

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Oil portraits of the first five principals and presidents of the college: Hamilton Hatter (1896 1906), Robert Page Sims (1906-1936), Henry Lake Dickason (1936-1952), Gregory W. Whitings, and Stephen J. Wright. There is no portrait of the sixth and last African-American president of Bluefield State College, LeRoy Allen (1958-1965).

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Bluefield State College, Wendell G. Hardway Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8071951

Bluefield State College, Wendell G. Hardway Library

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Bluefield Institute

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Bluefield Colored Institute

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Bluefield State Teachers College

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Hatter, Hamilton

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Allen, Leroy B.

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Wright, Stephen J

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Seventh president of Fisk University; b. Stephen Junius Wright, 1910; d. 1996. From the description of Stephen J. Wright presidential papers, 1957-1966. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70972615 College president, executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Stephen J. Wright : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684383 ...

Sims, Robert Page

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Whitings, Gregory W.

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Dickason, Henry Lake

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Bluefield State College

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Bluefield State College began as a graded high school to train Negro teachers; established by an act of state legislation in 1895, Bluefield Colored Institute was founded to serve the segregated public schools of the West Virginia coal mine camps; opened 6 Dec. 1896 under the direction of Principal Hamilton Hack with ten female and ten male students; graduated its first college class in 1929; immediately following the 1954 Brown vs Topeka (Kansas) Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, ...