America's HBCUs Collection
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Fanny Jackson Coppin - Coppin State College.
(b. 1837, Washington, D.C., U.S.—d. Jan. 21, 1913, Philadelphia, Pa.), was an educator, missionary, and lifelong advocate for female higher education. One of the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College, In 1926 the High and Training School of Baltimore was renamed the Fanny Jackson Coppin Normal School, now Coppin State College.
Left photograph: Fanny Jackson Coppin
Student portrait of Fanny Jackson Coppin, ca. 1860s-1870s
Source: Oberlin College Archives
Right photograph: Fanny Jackson Coppin.
Image courtesy of Documenting the American South, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
Fisk University-Fisk Jubilee Singers
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.
Fisk University-Paul T. Kwami, Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Longtime Director, Dies at 70
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
Fisk University-Thomas Rutling (1854-1915)
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.
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Lincoln University, Pa - Student Romare H. Bearden
Lincoln University, Pa.-Romare H. Bearden 1929
Bearden was born in Charlotte, NC September 2, 1911 to Bessye Johnson Bearden and Richard Howard Bearden.
This is the1929 Admissions headshot of Lincoln University student Romare Bearden who was known as an American artist, author, and songwriter.
Source: Lincoln University Archives- Getty Images.
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania - Albert Einstein Teaching Class
Einstein accepted the offer to visit Lincoln University from Horace Mann Bond. This photograph was taken in May 1946 at the time of Einstein’s visit to Lincoln University’s campus when Einstein received an honorary doctorate and took questions from students during a classroom visit.
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Tuskegee Institute - William Levi Dawson (September 26, 1899 – May 2, 1990)
was an American composer, choir director, professor, and musicologist.
In 1931 Dawson became director of the School of Music at Tuskegee. From 1932 to 1933 Dawson conducted the institute's 100-voice a cappella choir in a month's engagement at the opening of the International Music Hall of Radio City, and in concerts at Carnegie Hall, New York City, the White House, and another at Constitution Hall, both Washington, D.C., and in a series of national and international broadcasts. In 1934, under the sponsorship of the President of the United States and the State Department, the Tuskegee Choir made a concert tour of international and interracial good will to the British Isles, Europe, and the former U.S.S.R. Leading critics in America and abroad praised the choir highly.
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Left photograph: William L Dawson. Year unknown
Right photograph: William L Dawson ca. 1931 - Original publication: Studio portrait Immediate source: [New York Public Library
