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Barber-Scotia Seminary, A Source Of 19th Century Learning, was chartered by the State of North Carolina on November 22, 1870.

Bennett College , in Greensboro, was founded August 1, 1873 as a normal school for teacher training.

Bennett College May Queen and her court

Bennett College choir poses together in front of Steele Hall in the 1930s.

Bennett College student, Marjorie Cox (born & raised in Dunn, NC), and my dad Ivan McRae Jr (from NYC)

Bennett College-1914, Postcard with Six young women members of the baseball team

Bennett College-1945 Women's Athletic Association

Bennett College-A group of college students posing on the steps of Jones Hall at Bennett College

Bennett College-Bennett Belles from Bennett College For Women-1937-Students protesting Jim/Jane Crow laws

Bennett College-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt accepts flowers from two girl scouts during her visit to Bennett College for Women

Bennett College-Five students pose on stage for a show

Bennett College-Male and female students at Bennett Seminary

Bennett College-Male and female students at Bennett Seminary

Bennett College-The Night the Sports World Revolved Around Two Black Women’s Basketball Teams in Greensboro

Biddle College (Johnson C. Smith College) and Livingstone College football teams

Elizabeth City State University Early graduating class, Elizabeth City State Colored Normal School (circa 1900).

Elizabeth City State University founder, Mr. Hugh Cale, who was born in Perquimans County, NC in 1835 and died July 22, 1910.

Elizabeth City State University- HISTORICAL TIMELINE

Elizabeth City State University- Principal Peter W. Moore and students

Elizabeth City State University- Principal Peter W. Moore and students seated around wood-burning stove

Elizabeth City State University-Amy Littlejohn Roberts (1878-1935)

Elizabeth City State University-Cheerleaders, Elizabeth City State Teachers College, 1949.

Elizabeth City State University-ECSU State Colored Normal Class, 1912.

Elizabeth City State University-ECSU's Century-Old Rosenwald School

Elizabeth City State University-Elizabeth City State Colored Normal School women’s basketball team with coach Dr. Donald G. Brandon, 1937

Elizabeth City State University-Gathering of Female Students on State Colored Normal School Campus, circa 1924

Elizabeth City State University-The Student body of Elizabeth City Colored Normal School 1913-1914

Elizabeth City Teachers College Baseball Team-1909

Fayetteville State University (FSU) is a historically black public regional university in Fayetteville, North Carolina. FSU is part of the University of North Carolina System and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Fayetteville State University Broncoettes-1947.
Researcher Stan Best

Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) is a private, historically Black university in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Livingstone College Group of Officers and Teachers.

Livingstone College Main Building, Salisbury, NC. 1888.

Livingstone College was founded in Salisbury, North CarolinaAugust 31, 1879

N.C. Central University's Oldest Living Graduate, Maggie Bryant, Turns 106

North Carolina A&T State University was founded on March 9, 1891 as a land grant institution for African Americans.

North Carolina A&T University marching band c. 1930

North Carolina A&T University was founded on March 9, 1891

North Carolina A&T University-A team of A&T University cheerleaders practice out on the lawn on campus in 1938.

North Carolina A&T University-Cover page of The Colored American working man of the new time an address delivered by Rev. A. D. (Amory Dwight) Mayo, 1823-1907

North Carolina A&T photographer Charles Watkins remembered for stories told with his camera and his courage in facing adversity

North Carolina A&T students working in the Biological laboratory ca 1800.

North Carolina Central University Founder Dr. James E. Shepard standing with civil rights leader, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

North Carolina Central University opened on July 5, 1910

North Carolina Central University-Students Hold Voting Pamphlets Aloft

North Carolina College -Three band corps majorettes

North Carolina College 1941 CIAA Basketball Champions

North Carolina College Majorette, Grace Pegues

North Carolina College for Negroes-Master of Arts degree of G.C. Hawley

North Carolina College for Negroes-Zora Neale Hurston (standing), African American novelist, playwright, folklorist and anthropologist

North Carolina College-Four North Carolina College (Durham, NC) cheerleaders

North Carolina College-band portrait

North Carolina College’s HIGH-STEPPERS-- Durham, NC.

North Carolina College’s high-stepping majorettes

North Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Roger Arliner Young, born in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania in 1889, was the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology

Scotia Seminary in Concord, ca. 1891. Image courtesy of the Historic Cabarrus Association

Shaw University Cheerleaders-1961
Researcher Stan Best

Shaw University and St. Augustine’s College students protest in 1960

Shaw University football player, W. C. Strudwick (1884-1932)

Shaw University in Raleigh, NC has the first building ever established for the higher education of African American women in the United States.

Shaw University was Founded by Dr. Henry Martin Tupper on December 1, 1865.

Shaw University-Dr. King is seen pictured here, on the campus of Shaw University on April 15, 1960

Shaw University-Graduates from missionary training school, Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C. (1906 ?)

Shaw University-Louise Cecelia Fleming was a graduate of Shaw University in
Raleigh, NC, and she was the first Black woman to graduate from the Women’s Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Shaw University-The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Raleigh, NC to meet with Shaw U. students and faculty

Shaw University’s Leonard Medical School graduating class of 1909.

Contributing researcher-Stan Best

St Augustine’s College was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina on October 14, 1867

St. Augustine’s College science lab c. 1949

St. Augustine’s University Lyman Building, built 1886

William Day - Black abolitionist, educator, minister and editor of A weekly newspaper

Winston Salem State University

Winston Salem State University-Delores “Dee” Todd , WSSU Class of ‘72, Winston Salem, NC.

Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) was founded in 1892 as Slater Industrial School.
It is a historically black public university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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The G. C. and Frances Hawley Museum is an online clearinghouse for the often hidden history and culture of Black people in and from North Carolina. We also host reference materials on Black people in the United States and internationally.

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Story and photos shared by K.L. Mercer, a descendant of the Marrow family from the Vance and Granville County areas. She became immersed in her family's history, story, twists, and turns when she moved to North Carolina in 2013. She and her family purchased a property in the area and later found out that the site was part of the Marrow Plantation, where her ancestors had been enslaved.

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