Photograph: Students attending a football game at Howard University’s Griffith stadium, circa 1925.

Howard University Football Squad 1931
Photograph by Scurlock Moto

Ten Afro American women in cooking class at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. between 1899 and 1900.
By Frances Benjamin Johnston-photographer
Source: LOC

Photo: Howard University, 1868. (Credit: NYPL/Smith Collection/Getty Images).

Photograph:
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering an address in the Memorial Chapel at Hampton
Institute,
September. 27, 1956.
*Original photograph at the Hampton University Archives.*

Image: Howard University 1925 Yearbook. Cover and three pages.

Photograph of the Women’s tennis class / HU [Howard University] : [photoprint, ca. 1930s.]

Shared from: Hampton University Museum
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In 1879, Hampton’s founder, General Armstrong, wrote,
“the Negro has the only American Music, I feel it a duty to preserve.”

Image: Artist and photographer Leigh Richmond Miner teaching a drawing class to students at Hampton Institute, ca. 1900.

Title: Girls passing Mansion House, [Hampton Institute, Va.] [graphic].

Date: April 24, 1912

Photographer: Marriott Canby Morris, 1863-1948.

Morris Brown Ball Club
Little is known about the Morris Brown College baseball team that played at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Georgia college was founded by African Americans for black students.

Left image: a graduation program from 1893 Straight University.

Right image: Straight University’s graduating class of 1896.

Group portrait of Spelman College Class of 1929.

Source: Spelman College Photographs Collection.

As Fisk University mourns the passing of Dr. Paul T. Kwami, the longtime Musical Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, we take a moment to reflect on the founding of a cornerstone of this institution.

Founded in 1865, Fisk University faced the threat of closure only a few years after opening its doors. Professor George White had appreciation for students’ acapella singing and organized small choral groups on campus.

Paul T. Kwami, Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Longtime Director, Dies at 70

He took the storied Black musical group to new heights, including its first Grammy win and a National Medal of Arts.

By Clay Risen/NYT Obituaries
Published Sept. 15, 2022
Updated Sept. 18, 2022

Hampton University Football Team-1921
*Researcher Stan Best*

Image description: An 1859 portrait of Frederick Douglass and his youngest child, ten year old Annie. She was the youngest daughter of Frederick and Anna Murray’s children.

On November 7, 1883, Hartshorn Memorial College opened. It was a school for African American women in Richmond, Virginia from 1883–1932, when it merged into Virginia Union University.

Thomas Rutling (1854-1915) was a formerly enslaved man who became an original member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, which was a choral group that toured throughout the United States and Europe. He was a tenor in the group.
The Fisk Free Colored (high) School which was a part of Fisk University.

“At the turn of the century, in the early 1900's, this black and white image (left) features our student cadet corps.

Flash forward to present day, (right) and the Savannah State University NROTC cadets stand ready for commissioning with the Spring Class of 2022.”