Hazel Reid O'Leary is an American lawyer,politician and university administrator who served as the 7th United States secretary of energy from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party,O'Leary was the first woman and first African American to hold that post. She also served as the 14th president of Fisk University from 2004 to 2013,a historically black college and her alma mater. O'Leary's tenure at Fisk came amid financial difficulty for the school,during which time she increased enrollment and contentiously used the school's art collection to raise funds.
Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville,Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 and its 40-acre (16 ha) campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1873,it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt,who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Vanderbilt is a founding member of the Southeastern Conference and has been the conference's only private school since 1966.
Morehouse College is a private historically Black men's liberal arts college in Atlanta,Georgia. Anchored by its main campus of 61 acres (25 ha) near Downtown Atlanta,the college has a variety of residential dorms and academic buildings east of Ashview Heights. Along with Spelman College,Clark Atlanta University,and the Morehouse School of Medicine,the college is a member of the Atlanta University Center consortium. Founded by William Jefferson White in 1867 in response to the liberation of enslaved African-Americans following the American Civil War,Morehouse adopted a seminary university model and stressed religious instruction in the Baptist tradition. Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s,the college experienced rapid,albeit financially unstable,institutional growth by establishing a liberal arts curriculum. The three-decade tenure of Benjamin Mays during the mid-20th century led to strengthened finances,an enrollment boom,and increased academic competitiveness. The college has played a key role in the development of the civil rights movement and racial equality in the United States.
Aaron Douglas was an American painter,illustrator and visual arts educator. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations that addressed social issues around race and segregation in the United States by utilizing African-centric imagery. Douglas set the stage for young,African-American artists to enter the public-arts realm through his involvement with the Harlem Artists Guild. In 1944,he concluded his art career by founding the Art Department at Fisk University in Nashville,Tennessee. He taught visual art classes at Fisk until his retirement in 1966. Douglas is known as a prominent leader in modern African-American art whose work influenced artists for years to come.
Karen Ann Holbrook is the regional chancellor of University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee since January 2,2018.
Walter Eugene Massey is an American educator,physicist,and executive. President emeritus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and of Morehouse College,he is chairman of the board overseeing construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope,and serves as trustee chair of the City Colleges of Chicago. During his career,Massey has served as head of the National Science Foundation,director of Argonne National Laboratory,and chairman of Bank of America. He has also served in professorial and administrative posts at the University of California,University of Chicago,Brown University,and the University of Illinois.
Christ,also known as Christ University,is a deemed-to-be-university located in Bangalore,Karnataka,India. Founded in 1969 as Christ College,the University Grants Commission (UGC) conferred autonomy to the college in 2004. On 22 July 2008,it was declared as an institution deemed to be university under section 3 of UGC Act 1956 by the Ministry of Education.
James Cordie Cheek was a 17-year-old African-American youth who was lynched by a white mob in Maury County,Tennessee near the county seat of Columbia. After being falsely accused of raping a young white girl,Cheek was released from jail when the grand jury did not indict him,due to lack of evidence. The county magistrate and two other men from Maury County abducted Cheek from Nashville,where he was staying with relatives near Fisk University,took him back to the county,and turned him over to a lynch mob. The mob mutilated the youth and murdered him by hanging.
William Henry Spencer High School, is at 1000 Fort Benning Road in Columbus,Georgia,United States. The school colors are green and gold. The school mascot is the Owl,representing wisdom. The school also defines itself as "The Greenwave."
The Black Ivy League refers to a segment of the historically black colleges (HBCUs) in the United States that attract the majority of high-performing or affluent African American students.
Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) was a far right student group registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the United States. The group became a corporation in 2006 and began actively organizing in 2008. Kevin DeAnna founded the organization. Its honorary chairman was former Colorado US Representative Tom Tancredo.
Sidney A. McPhee is a Bahamian born,American educator currently serving as the President of Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).
Bennett Harvie Branscomb was an American theologian and academic administrator. He served as the fourth chancellor of Vanderbilt University,a private university in Nashville,Tennessee,from 1946 to 1963. Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt,he was the director of the Duke University Libraries and dean of the Duke Divinity School. Additionally,he served as a professor of Christian theology at Southern Methodist University. He was the author of several books about New Testament theology.
Charles DeWitt Watts was an African-American surgeon and activist for the poor. Watts was the first surgeon of African-American ancestry in North Carolina. Earning his medical degree in 1943 from Howard University College,he was the first African-American board-certified surgeon to serve in North Carolina. After surgical training at Freedman's Hospital in Washington,D.C.,in 1949,he moved to Durham,North Carolina,in 1950 and established a clinic to provide access to medical services for the poor. Breaking the social customs of racial obstacles,he advocated for certification of African-American medical students. He also became a member of many professional colleges including the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine and the American College of Surgeons. He served as chief of surgery at Durham's Lincoln Hospital and was later one of the key figures in converting it to the Lincoln Community Health Center,a low-priced clinic for the poor.
Professor Dinesh Singh,chancellor K.R. Mangalam University is an Indian professor of mathematics. He served as the 21st Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi,is a distinguished fellow of Hackspace at Imperial College London,and has been an adjunct professor of Mathematics at the University of Houston. For his services to the nation he was conferred with the Padma Shri which is the fourth highest civilian award awarded by the Republic of India.
Lonsdale Ragg was an Anglican priest author.
James Raymond Lawson was an American physicist and university administrator. He was the president of Fisk University,a historically black university in Nashville,Tennessee,from 1967 to 1975.
Walter J. Leonard was an American lawyer and university administrator. As an administrator at Harvard University,he pioneered affirmative action in admissions. He was the president of Fisk University,a historically black university in Nashville,Tennessee,from 1977 to 1984.
