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HBCU Digital Collections
The Early History of Alabama State University - Montgomery, AL
The Alabama State University digital collection is comprised of images reflecting the people, institutions, and structures important to the early history of the school. These images preserve the heritage of Alabama State University during its early years of struggle as it survived in the midst of Jim Crow segregation and thrived with the support of the African-American community in the cradle of the Confederacy and the modern civil rights movement. This collection contains items having the following themes: Churches, Campus Buildings, Presidents, and Faculty.
Bennett College History - Greensboro, NC
The Bennett College History collection contains photographs of campus buildings from the early period of Bennett’s history. These photographs provide a view of the campus before it became a women’s college in 1926. Prior to 1926, Bennett Seminary was a co-ed campus that was founded by the Freedmen’s Aid Society in the basement of the St. Matthews United Methodist Church.
A Celebration of Fisk through Photographs, Programs, and Publications - Nashville, TN
From 1866 to the present, Fisk University has maintained a tradition of excellence and played a leadership role in the education of African Americans. The digital collection consists of photographs, programs, and publications that document the history of Fisk University. The project will allow users from distant locations to view materials, facilitate scholarly research, and promote the history and current resources of the University. This collection contains items having the following themes: Presidents, Campus Buildings, and Alumni. 
Grambling State Black and Gold Collections - Grambling, LA
The Grambling State University Black and Gold Collection includes Grambling State University founder’s documents, Presidents’ Reports, Inaugurations, games, university newsletters, pictures, historical building images, 1951 and 1958 year books, professional appointments, and other related historical documents. This collection contains items having the following themes: Reports, Football, Campus Buildings, and Alumni.
Digital Library of Hampton University - Hampton, VA
The collection includes reports on the first years of Hampton Institute, including annual documents; works on the African American and American Indian students; catalogs; pictures and speeches of founders and other significant individuals. It includes issues of The Southern Workman, a magazine founded in 1872 by General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and items related to Booker T. Washington, Alumni, Presidents, and the Hampton Singers.
The Early History of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania - Chester Cty, PA
Since its founding as Ashmun Institute in April 1854, the first institution in the world to provide a higher education for young men of African descent, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania renamed in 1866 to memorialize the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln has had a long history of excellence, producing graduates of national and international renown, including Kwame Nkrumah, Thurgood Marshall, and Langston Hughes . This collection focuses on documents from the institutions first century, including founding documents and early minute books, print publications and photographs. Additional materials are available from the Lincoln University website, www.lincoln.edu/library/specialcollections/digitalcollections.html
Digital Collection of Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, GA
The Digital Collection of the Robert W. Woodruff Library consists of photographic images and publications from the Archives & Special Collections Department documenting the early history of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) institutions. These "founding documents" encompass pictures of AUC member institution presidents, faculty, students, alumni, earliest buildings, and an electronically searchable text of the Atlanta University Bulletin dating from 1883 to 1910.
Southern University and A&M College Digital Collection, Baton Rouge, LA
"Southern University History Online" is a pictorial history of the institution and also provides the first gateway to major historical and illustrative resources about the institution. Photographs, manuscripts, event programs, and a plethora of other documents can be found on this site. The pictures and documents in this collection span the early history of the institution, from 1880-1960. Each image or historical document illustrates some aspect of the institution's rich legacy. Materials in the online collection are taken from source materials housed in the University Archives, Special Collections Department of the John B. Cade Library. This collection contains items having the themes: Presidents, Students, Sports, Alumni, Campus Buildings, Artifacts, and Events.
Tennessee State University Digital Collections, Nashville, TN
The images from the archive of the Brown-Daniel Library provide an overview of the early years of Tennessee State University, which was founded in 1912 as the State Normal School for Negroes. The digital collection includes photos of Students, Faculty, Staff, the administration of the first president, William Jasper Hale, early campus buildings, organizations, activities, and events. A 1928 commencement program is also highlighted.
Tuskegee University Libraries Digital Collection, Tuskegee, AL
The Tuskegee University digital collection consists of early images of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School and The Tuskegee Institute Bulletins that date back to the late 1800s. The early historical images of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School depict the trades that were taught during that era. There are also photographs of Booker T. Washington and his family.
Virginia State University Digital Archives Collections, Petersburg, VA
The items included in this digital collection document the early years of Virginia State University. It contains both archival and manuscript materials such as: photographs, minutes, correspondence, catalogs, rare books and other items that highlight the unique beginnings of this state Normal and Collegiate Institute.
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