Description: Souvenir football program for the Homecoming game played by Central State College and West Virginia State College on October 10, 1959 at McPherson Memorial Stadium on Central State College campus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F10_01
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports; Central State College
 

Description: Photograph of the coaching staff of the Central State College football program with Gaston “Country” Lewis, Bernard Proctor, and unidentified others. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F11_01
Subjects: Central State College; Proctor, Bernard S., 1921-; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports
 

Description: Photograph of members of the coaching staff of the Central State College football program. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F11_02
Subjects: Central State College; Proctor, Bernard S., 1921-; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports
 

Description: Photograph of the members of the Central State College baseball team. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F13_01
Subjects: Central State College; Proctor, Bernard S., 1921-; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports
 

Description: Charles Harris Wesley shaking hands with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shortly after receiving his honorary doctorate from Central State College in 1958. Charles Harris Wesley was a prominent African American scholar, artist, minister and civil rights figure. He received degrees from Fisk University, Yale University and Harvard University and taught at Howard University in Washington. He was a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree by Wilberforce University. He served as president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s, founded of Central State College in 1948 and served as the first director of the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1970s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM34_2_20.tif
Subjects: Activists; Civil Liberties; Civil rights; Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century; African American men; African American authors; Wilberforce University; Howard University; Central State College
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Hallie Q. Brown receiving an honorary degree from Central State College. Brown was the daughter of freed slaves Thomas and Frances Jane who were actively involved with the Underground Railroad. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University and later became Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Brown helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), was elected Secretary of Education of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900 and served as the 7th National President of the NACW. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS5_B08F07
Subjects: Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), d. 1949; African American women; African American Educators; Wilberforce University; Tuskegee Institute; Religion in Ohio; Central State College
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Hallie Q. Brown Memorial Library on the Central State College campus. Brown was the daughter of freed slaves Thomas and Frances Jane who were actively involved with the Underground Railroad. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University and later became Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Brown helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), was elected Secretary of Education of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900 and served as the 7th National President of the NACW. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS5_B06F01_002
Subjects: Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), d. 1949; African American women; African American Educators; Wilberforce University; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Tuskegee Institute; Religion in Ohio; Central State College
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Charles Harris Wesley, a prominent African American scholar, artist, minister and civil rights figure. He received degrees from Fisk University, Yale University and Harvard University and taught at Howard University in Washington. He was a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree by Wilberforce University. He served as president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s, founded of Central State College in 1948 and served as the first director of the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1970s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM34_1
Subjects: Activists; Civil Liberties; Civil rights; Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century; African American men; African American authors; Wilberforce University; Howard University; Central State College
Places: Washington (District of Columbia); Philadelphia (Pennsylvania); Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Picture of the Hallie Q. Brown Memorial Library located on the campus of Central State College. This building, along with much more of the campus, was later destroyed by the 1974 Xenia tornado. Hallie Q. Brown was the daughter of freed slaves Thomas and Frances Jane who were actively involved with the Underground Railroad. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University and later became Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Brown helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), was elected Secretary of Education of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900 and served as the 7th National President of the NACW. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS5_B06F01_001
Subjects: Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), d. 1949; Wilberforce University; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Tuskegee Institute; Central State College; African American women; African American Educators
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Arnett Hall on the campus of Central State University. Central State University originated on March 19, 1887, when the Ohio General Assembly passed an act establishing a Combined Normal and Industrial (CN&I) Department at Wilberforce University. Through various transitional changes, it emerged as an independent, state university. In 1941, the General Assembly expanded the CN&I, which offered two-year courses, into the College of Education and Industrial Arts, with four-year programs. In 1947, it separated from Wilberforce University. The history of Central State University tells the history of higher education and advancement for African Americans in Ohio. It is within the walls of these structures, and others unfortunately demolished or destroyed by the 1974 tornado, that thousands of African Americans received valuable training for successful and rewarding careers. Thus, many of the contributions of African Americans to the promotion and betterment of education, medicine, law, social justice, technology, and the arts in Ohio have their roots here on the campus of Central State University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06809
Subjects: Central State College; Cultural Ohio--Education; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: O'Neill Hall on the campus of Central State University. Central State University originated on March 19, 1887, when the Ohio General Assembly passed an act establishing a Combined Normal and Industrial (CN&I) Department at Wilberforce University. Through various transitional changes, it emerged as an independent, state university. In 1941, the General Assembly expanded the CN&I, which offered two-year courses, into the College of Education and Industrial Arts, with four-year programs. In 1947, it separated from Wilberforce University. The history of Central State University tells the history of higher education and advancement for African Americans in Ohio. It is within the walls of these structures, and others unfortunately demolished or destroyed by the 1974 tornado, that thousands of African Americans received valuable training for successful and rewarding careers. Thus, many of the contributions of African Americans to the promotion and betterment of education, medicine, law, social justice, technology, and the arts in Ohio have their roots here on the campus of Central State University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06810
Subjects: Central State College; Cultural Ohio--Education; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Hallie Q. Brown taken after she received an honorary Doctorate of Law from Central State University. Brown was the daughter of freed slaves Thomas and Frances Jane who were actively involved with the Underground Railroad. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University and later became Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Brown helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), was elected Secretary of Education of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900 and served as the 7th National President of the NACW. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS5_B10F01_L
Subjects: Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), d. 1949; African American women; Wilberforce University; Tuskegee Institute; Religion in Ohio; African American Educators; Central State College
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)