Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker amongst other Bishops, General Officers, Delegates and Lay persons at the 33rd General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Walker was the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940’s and father of Yvonne Walker-Taylor, who became the one of first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B06F02_B
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Photograph of two-year-old Yvonne Walker-Taylor in the backyard of her home in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Walker-Taylor became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F09_C_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
Places: Massachusetts
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor amongst unidentified individuals at a train station. Yvonne Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. She later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B06F02_F
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker kneeling in the front yard of his home. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_E_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Religion in Ohio; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American Educators
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Eva Walker, mother of Yvonne Walker-Taylor and wife of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, who was the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He resided over the A.M.E. Fifth Episcopal District and was the 10th president of Wilberforce University. Walker-Taylor who became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B06F05_F
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Illustration by Thomas Nast depicting the charge of the 54th Massachusetts on Fort Wagner. Caption reads: "Entred (sic) according to Act of Congress A.D. 1867 by Johnson, Fry & Co., in the clerks office of the district court of the southern district of New York" ALTERNATE TEXT: Two sides clash in an army battle. The scene is at night, with most of the light coming from gun shots or fires. Multiple flags are held above the battle, including American and Confederate flags. African American soldiers are included in the Union army and they all charge uphill toward the Rebel soldiers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC16
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Civil War 1861-1865; Artists
Places: New York
 

Description: Photograph of three men at an Army camp. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B06F21_I
Subjects: African American men; African American soldiers
 

Description: Photograph of Charles Noel "Tonton" Young, the son of Colonel Charles Young, as an infant. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F06_04
Subjects: African American men; African American children; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Photograph of Reverend O. Davis Slacum standing beside the Cain Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church in Bakersfield California. The church was built in 1880, was rebuilt in 1914 and purchased by the A.M.E. Church in 1954. Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker was acting Bishop; Reverend R.A. Washington was the Presiding Elder and Reverend O. Davis Slacum was the Pastor. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B06F02_W
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Photograph of Franks Roberts in his military uniform with an unidentified man. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F06_P
Subjects: African American men; African American soldiers; Military officers
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, Reverend Higman and unidentified individuals at the grave of Reverend Cole, which is located in the cemetery of the Kingstown Methodist Church in the West Indies. Bishop D.O.B. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He resided over the A.M.E. Fifth Episcopal District and was the 10th president of Wilberforce University. His daughter, Yvonne Walker-Taylor later became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F10_I_2
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Photograph of Herbert Jeffrey, aka Herb Jefferies, the first African American singing cowboy. His first film was "Harlem on the Prairie" which was considered the first black western following the inauguration of the talkies. Herbert Jefferies sang his own songs in "The Bronze Buckaroo" and "Harlem Rides the Range." Following his movie career, Jefferies returned to singing and recorded "The Flamingo" with Duke Ellington. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F04_09_1_7
Subjects: Musicians; Music; Actors; African American men