Yvonne Walker-Taylor childhood photograph   Save
Yvonne Walker-Taylor Photograph Collection – NAM P2
Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor as a young child, standing in her yard in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Reverend Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, 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 the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F06_E_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
Places: Yvonne Walker-Taylor Photograph Collection – NAM P2