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Alonzo G. Morón
Alonzo Graseano Morón (née Alonzo Graseano Brown; 1909–1971), was a Danish Virgin Islands-born American educator, university president, sociologist, and civil servant. He was the first Black president of the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) a HBCU in Virginia, from 1949 to 1959; a former Commissioner of Education and of Welfare in the Virgin Islands; and a former deputy regional director of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Early life and education Alonzo Graseano Brown was born April 12, 1909, in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish Virgin Islands (now United States Virgin Islands). He and his sibling were primarily raised by their single mother, Caroline Louisa Brown. In 1917, the island became a territory of the United States, but there were not many educational opportunities. In 1923 at age 14, he left the island to attend a secondary vocational school and learn the trade of upholstery at Hampton's Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Amalie, U
Charlotte most commonly refers to: *Charlotte (given name), a feminine form of the given name Charles ** Princess Charlotte (other) ** Queen Charlotte (other) *Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, a city * Charlotte (cake), a type of dessert Charlotte may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Charlotte (''Charlotte's Web''), a barn spider from the 1952 children's book by E. B. White Film and television * ''Charlotte'' (1974 film), a French crime thriller * ''Charlotte'' (1981 film), a Dutch film by Frans Weisz * ''Charlotte'' (2021 film), an animated drama film * ''Charlotte'' (TV series), an anime television series Music * ''Charlotte'' (album), a 1999 album by Charlotte Nilsson * Charlotte (American band), a hard rock band * Charlotte (Japanese band), a pop punk band * Charlotte (singer), British singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, and record producer *"Charlotte", a 1969 song by Jimmy McGriff from '' A Thing to Come By'' *"Charlotte", a 1982 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BlackPast
BlackPast.org is a web-based reference center that is dedicated primarily to the understanding of African-American history and Afro-Caribbean history and the history of people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry. In 2011, the American Library Association's Reference and User Services Association included it in its list of the 25 Best Free Reference Websites of the Year. According to BlackPast.org, the website has a global audience of about two million visitors per year from more than 100 nations. In 2009, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Brazil, and Germany ranked as the top five countries, after the United States, for visitors to the site."History of BlackPast.org (2004– )" ''BlackPast.org''. A 2008 website review described it as easily navigable and well organized but also as containing omissions among som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Homes
In 1994 the Atlanta Housing Authority, encouraged by the federal HOPE VI program, embarked on a policy created for the purpose of comprehensive revitalization of severely distressed public housing developments. These distressed public housing properties were replaced by mixed-income communities. Replaced by mixed-income communities State Capitol Homes (1941-2003) State Capitol Homes (aka "Capitol Homes") was completed on April 7, 1941 and designed to serve black families in low-rise housing. The 694 units demolished in 2003 were replaced by Capitol Gateway, which includes 1,000 units of housing for various income levels. Carver Community (1953–2000) The Carver Community housing project (aka "Carver Homes") in southeast Atlanta was finished on February 17, 1953, costing $8.6 million and consisting of 990 units for African-Americans.Schank, Katie. Producing the Projects: Atlanta and the Cultural Creation of Public Housing, 1933-2011. 2016. Proquest. Named for George Washington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta University
Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded on September19, 1865, as Atlanta University, it was the first HBCU in the Southern United States. In 1988 Atlanta consolidated with Clark College (established 1869) to form CAU. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". History Atlanta University was founded on September 19, 1865, the first HBCU in the Southern United States. Atlanta University was the nation's first graduate institution to award degrees to African Americans and the first to award bachelor's degrees to African Americans in the South; Clark College (1869) was the nation's first four-year liberal arts college to serve African-American students. The two consolidated in 1988 to form Clark Atlanta University. Atlanta University In the city of Atlanta, while the Civil War was well underway, two literate African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence M
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence was a centre of Middle Ages, medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful House of Medici, Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of Italian language, standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hope (educator)
John Hope (June 2, 1868 – February 22, 1936), born in Augusta, Georgia, was an American educator and political activist, the first African-descended president of both Morehouse College in 1906 and of Atlanta University in 1929, where he worked to develop graduate programs. Both are historically Black colleges. Determined to finish his education after having had to leave school to help support his family after his father's death, Hope went North: graduating from Worcester Academy and Brown University. He returned to the South to teach, and in 1906 became the first African American president of Atlanta Baptist College. He served as president until his death in 1936. After the college's affiliation with Atlanta University, Hope was selected in 1929 as the university's first African-American president; he worked to develop that institution's graduate programs to ensure higher education for Blacks. Hope was active in national civil rights organizations, including the Niagara Movem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin D
Franklin may refer to: People and characters * Franklin (given name), including list of people and characters with the name * Franklin (surname), including list of people and characters with the name * Franklin (class), a member of a historical English social class Places * Franklin (crater), a lunar impact crater * Franklin County (other), in a number of countries * Mount Franklin (other), including Franklin Mountain Australia * Franklin, Tasmania, a township * Division of Franklin, federal electoral division in Tasmania * Division of Franklin (state), state electoral division in Tasmania * Franklin, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin * Franklin River, river of Tasmania * Franklin Sound, waterway of Tasmania Canada * District of Franklin, a former district of the Northwest Territories * Franklin, Quebec, a municipality in the Montérégie region * Rural Municipality of Franklin, Manitoba * Franklin, Manitoba, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Martin Pearson
Paul Martin Pearson (October 22, 1871 – March 26, 1938) was a college professor, author, editor of journals, a Quaker, and the first civilian Governor of the United States Virgin Islands. Pearson was born in Litchfield, Illinois. He attended Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, for his Master of Arts degree. In 1907 he was listed as one of the co-creators of ''Lyceumite & Talent'' magazine along with Louis J. Alber. In 1909, he obtained his doctorate at Northwestern University and did some teaching there, before moving to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and becoming a professor of Public Speaking at Swarthmore College. He wrote several books on public speaking and was an editor of the quarterly magazine "The speaker". He was also a major advocate of the Chautauqua movement in the US and founded the Swarthmore Chautauqua Association. Besides this he served as a speaker for the American Red Cross. During World War I, he was responsible for the YMCA education programs in Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Urban League
The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation. Its current president is Marc Morial. History The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was founded in New York City on September 29, 1910, by Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Haynes, among others. It merged with the Committee for the Improvement of Industrial Conditions Among Negroes in New York (founded in New York in 1906) and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women (founded in 1905), and was renamed the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. Haynes served as the organization's first Executive Director. In 1918, Eugene K. Jones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilberforce University
Wilberforce University (WU) is a private university in Wilberforce, Ohio. It is one of three historically black universities established before the American Civil War. Founded in 1856 by the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), it is named after English statesman and abolitionist William Wilberforce. In 1863 it was sold to the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) which had ties to the school since its inception. WU remains affiliated with the AME. Beginning in 1887, WU operated as a partially state-funded and partially private institution. Concerns over the separation of church and state led WU's theology department to separate and establish the independent Payne Theological Seminary. The state funded division of the school separated from WU in 1947 and became what is today known as Central State University. The university currently offers twenty-five academic programs of undergraduate and graduate study. Since 1966, the school has emphasized cooperative education in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosenwald Fellowship
The Rosenwald Fund (also known as the Rosenwald Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation) was established in 1917 by Julius Rosenwald and his family for "the well-being of mankind." Rosenwald became part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1895, serving as its president from 1908 to 1922, and chairman of its board of directors until his death in 1932. History Unlike other endowed foundations, which were designed to fund themselves in perpetuity, the Rosenwald Fund was designed to expend all of its funds for philanthropic purposes before a predetermined "sunset date." It donated over $70 million to public schools, colleges and universities, museums, Jewish charities, and African American institutions before funds were completely depleted in 1948. The rural school building program for African-American children was one of the largest programs administered by the Rosenwald Fund. Over $4.4 million in matching funds stimulated construction of more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farnham, Virginia
Farnham is an unincorporated community in Richmond County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. History Farnham takes its name from Farnham, in Surrey, England. The North Farnham Church was built in 1737 and has featured in historic events since then. Two years into the War of 1812, bullet holes were left in the walls during a conflict between the Virginia militia and the British fleet, led by Admiral George Cockburn. This event was called the Skirmish at Farnham Church. During the Civil War the church was used by Union soldiers as a stable. It has been restored several times, once in 1872 and again in 1924. Farnham also includes Scotts Corner, a locality near the intersections of Virginia State Route 602 and Virginia State Route 612. Scotts Corner was named for Henry B. Scott, a landowner who was prominent in local affairs in the mid-1800s. It may also have been named for the Bruce family, Scottish immigrants and landowners who lived in Farnham in the mid-17th century. Linde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
