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Walter L. Smith (scholar)
Walter Lee Smith (May 13, 1935 – November 25, 2021) was president of Florida A&M University (FAMU), serving from 1977 until 1985. The privately-owned Walter L. Smith Library has a collection and hold programs related to African American history. Smith received a bachelor's degree from Florida A&M University and a doctorate from Florida State University. He was an Africa-America Institute Scholar to West Africa in 1971 and studied African culture and history. He worked for the U.S. government on federal school desegregation programs and at the Kennedy Space Center developing educational curriculum for engineering assistants on the Saturn V program before becoming an administrator at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa and then Roxbury Community College in Massachusetts. From 1995 until 2000 he was a professor at the University of Florida. He served as FAMU's seventh non-interim president from 1977 until 1985. FAMU's campus includes the Walter L. Smith Architecture Building F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida A&M University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), commonly known as Florida A&M, is a public historically black land-grant university in Tallahassee, Florida. Founded in 1887, It is the third largest historically black university in the United States by enrollment and the only public historically black university in Florida. It is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, as well as one of the state's land grant universities, and is accredited to award baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. FAMU sports teams are known as the Rattlers, and compete in Division I of the NCAA. They are a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). History Black abolitionist Jonathan C. Gibbs first introduced legislation to create the State Normal College for Colored Students in 1885, one year after being elected to the Florida Legislature. The date also reflects the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
