Related Research Articles
Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The city is located in the Southside Virginia region and on the fall line of the Dan River. It was a center of tobacco production and was an area of Confederate activity during the American Civil War, due to its strategic location on the Richmond and Danville Railroad. In April 1865 it briefly served as the third and final capital of the Confederacy before its surrender later that year.
John Mercer Langston was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University, a historically black college. He was elected a U.S. Representative from Virginia and wrote From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol; Or, the First and Only Negro Representative in Congress From the Old Dominion.
James Edwin Campbell was an American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist. Campbell was the first principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute from 1892 until 1894, and is considered by the university as its first president.
Marie Frankie Muse Freeman was an American civil rights attorney, and the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1964–79), a federal fact-finding body that investigates complaints alleging discrimination. Freeman was instrumental in creating the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights founded in 1982. She was a practicing attorney in State and Federal courts for nearly sixty years.
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue."
Colross is a Georgian style mansion built around 1800 as the center of a large plantation in what is now the Old Town neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia, and moved circa 1930 to Princeton, New Jersey, where it is currently the administration building of Princeton Day School.
Davis et al. v. The St. Louis Housing Authority is a landmark class-action lawsuit filed in 1952 in Saint Louis, Missouri to challenge explicit racial discrimination in public housing. The decision enjoined the Saint Louis Housing Authority from refusing to rent certain units to qualified African Americans. The case was heard in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
William P. Newman (1810/15–1866) was a fugitive slave who escaped from Virginia, moved north and obtained an education at Oberlin College. Becoming an ordained Baptist minister, he pastored for a few years at the Union Baptist Church of Cincinnati, Ohio. He made numerous mission trips to Canada, founding schools and preaching. He was known for writing on abolitionist themes. After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 passed, he settled his family in Ontario, where they remained until 1859. Leaving Canada, he first immigrated with his family to Haiti, but came into conflict with the Catholicism he found there. After trying to immigrate again to Jamaica, he returned to the United States after the outbreak of the Civil War and re-established his pastorate at the Union Baptist Church. He died in a cholera epidemic in 1866.
Lakeland High School was a high school for black children located in the Lakeland community of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, now a part of College Park. It was the second high school for black children in the county. It ceased being used for educational purposes in 1983. As of 2012, the building was being used as a church.
Walter Frederic Martens was an American architect who worked mainly in West Virginia. He is best known for building the West Virginia Governor's Mansion (1926).
Hiawassee High School, also known as Hiawassee Academy, was a Baptist affiliated high school in Hiawassee, Georgia. It was co-ed and A.B. Greene was the principal from at least 1897 until 1909. It eventually became Hiawasee Junior College.
Richmond High School was a former public secondary school in Richmond, Virginia. The school's alumni include prominent African Americans and champion runner Lon Myers, a Jew. An 1885 report on Virginia's schools showed dozens of teachers trained at Richmond High School and the teachers serving in various counties.
Bethel Military Academy was a school near Warrenton, Virginia in Fauquier County. It operated from 1867 until 1911 and had several prominent alumni. The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill in 1901 incorporating the school. The bill included a requirement that one student chosen from each district of Virginia was granted tuition free admission to the school.
Claudius B. Claiborne is an American professor and former basketball player. He is known for being the first African-American to play on the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team.
William Louis Reed served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He succeeded Robert Teamoh in 1896. He was a Republican representing parts of Boston. He was born in Danville, Virginia. He attended Stoneham High School and Bryant & Stratton College.
Langston High School was an American segregated high school for African American students, active from 1913 until 1970 and located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was one of the leading schools in Arkansas for African Americans, and was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
E. O. Douglas High School served African American students during segregation in Sebring, Florida, United States. It was the only high school available to African Americans in Highlands County, Florida. Samuel C. Nixon was its principal from 1946 until it closed in 1970. The school was named for bank president and trustee Eugene Oren Douglas. It became an elementary school in 1967 and closed was closed with desegregation in 1970.
Louisburg High School is in Louisburg, North Carolina. The student body has a mix of white, African American, and Hispanic students. The school colors are orange and blue. Warriors are the school mascot.
Newbold High School was a racially segregated public high school for African American students active from 1952 until 1968, and located in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina.
James Edward Dean was a social worker, educator and state legislator who lived in Atlanta, Georgia. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1968 to 1974. His brother Douglas Dean also served as a state representative.
References
- ↑ Clark, Lawrence M. "A Brief History of the Education of African Americans in Danville, Virginia: From Dan's Hill to Langston High School" (PDF). Virginia Center for Digital History. University of Virginia.
- ↑ Fountain, Clara Garrett (August 9, 2000). Danville, Virginia. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781439610862 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "History of Langston".
- ↑ Glaise, Dr Joyce (April 30, 2016). From Danville to Destiny: I Got Nerve: The Political Legacy of a Danville Native. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 9781490772707 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Rights, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional (July 2, 1964). "Nominations of Mrs. Frankie Muse Freeman and Mr. Eugene C. Patterson: Hearing, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Nomination of Mrs. Frankie Muse Freeman, of St. Louis, Mo., and Mr. Eugene C. Patterson, of Atlanta, Ga., to be Members of the Commission on Civil Rights. July 28, 1964". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ↑ Education, Virginia State Board of (July 2, 1970). "Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Virginia" – via Google Books.
- ↑ Bailey, Frankie Y.; Green, Alice P. (April 22, 2011). Wicked Danville: Liquor and Lawlessness in a Southside Virginia City. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781625841223 – via Google Books.
36°35′18″N79°24′26″W / 36.5884°N 79.4072°W
 | This Virginia-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |