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HBCU Library Alliance Digital Collection Contributors:
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.
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.
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.
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pictures, historical building images, 1951 and 1958 year books, professional appointments, and other related historical documents.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.
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.  Lincoln University of Missouri - "52 Steps, the Journey of Lincoln University of Missouri" - added 2008 52 Steps, the Journey of Lincoln University of Missouri contains select images of the Founders, Buildings, and Special Schools that chronicle LU's history, as well as place the University's history into a national context.
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, http://www.lincoln.edu/library/specialcollections/digitalcollections.html
"Worship of God Through Service to Mankind." A national treasure, Meharry Medical College is the oldest, private historically black medical school in the country. Founded in 1876 as the medical department of Central Tennessee College, Meharry became an independent Medical College in 1915. Meharry includes schools in medicine (the oldest and largest of all schools), dentistry, and graduate studies. Meharry’s digital collection contributes images having the following themes: Presidents, Campus Buildings, Faculty, Alumni, the School of Medicine, the School of Dentistry, the School of Graduate Studies, the School of Pharmacy which closed in 1938, and the School of Nursing which closed in 1962.
The Morehouse School of Medicine Digital Archives consists of historical publications, documents, and photographs of administrators, faculty members, staff, visitors, and facilities related to the school’s founding and development. It was founded in 1975, as the Medical Education Program (MEP) at Morehouse College, a member institution of the Atlanta University Center. Later, the name was changed to the School of Medicine at Morehouse College, and later still, to the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), when it became a separate independent institution.
The North Carolina Central University Digital Collection consists of photographic images from the University Archives of people and structures that were fundamental in the early developmental of North Carolina Central University, the nation’s first state supported liberal arts college for African-Americans. This collection includes photographs of Dr. James E. Shepard, the founder, and his family, presidents, chancellors, students, structures and other significant individuals.
The Digital Collection from the Collins-Callaway Library archive consists of early images of Paine Institute, which was founded in 1882, and rechartered in 1903 as Paine College. The collection includes images of founders, early presidents, faculty, students, alumni, buildings, organizations, activities, events, and documents.
The Digital Collection of the Robert W. Woodruff Library consists of photographic images and publications from the Archives and 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.
The Saint Augustine's College Digital Collection is a reflection of the founding days of the College, which includes founding documents, first principals and presidents, historic buildings, notable alumni, faculty, staff, students and graduating classes dating from 1867 to 1939.
This historic digital collection at South Carolina State University encompasses all of the Presidents who have provided leadership over the years to this historic land grant university. The collection details their accomplishments and their diverse backgrounds. Each of these Presidents, including the current president, has left an indelible mark on the University.
"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.
Since opening for instruction in 1967, Southern University at Shreveport (SUSLA) has been committed to excellence, integrity, accountability, and service. This collection serves as an historical record of the institution. The individuals, buildings, and events depicted are representative of the many whose early enthusiasm and enduring vision contributed to shaping SUSLA. The included images and documents are located in Southern University at Shreveport's Black Ethnic Archives and Library.
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.
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.
Since it was founded in 1851 as the Miner School, the University of the District of Columbia and its predecessor institutions have played a vital role in educating African Americans in the District of Columbia. The Digital Collection of the University Archives of the University of the District of Columbia consists of images that document the people, events, and places important in the history of the university and its predecessor institutions (Miner Normal School, Miner Teachers College, Wilson Normal School, Wilson Teachers College DC Teachers College, Federal City College, Washington Technical Institute, Antioch School of Law, DC School of Law, as well as the University of the District of Columbia. This collection of images includes university presidents, campus buildings, presidents, faculty, students, activities, documents, and significant events.
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. |
Meharry Medical College - "Meharry Medical College Digital Collection" 
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