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Yvonne Walker-Taylor Photograph Collection-NAM P2
Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor admiring the dress of an unidentified woman before their commencement ceremony. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor 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 president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_D_6
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American Educators
Places: Yvonne Walker-Taylor Photograph Collection-NAM P2