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

On the left is NCCU Founder Dr. James E. Shepard standing with civil rights leader, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. outside B.N. Duke Auditorium in 1938.

Powell was also co-founder of the National Negro Congress and the first African American to represent Harlem, N.Y., in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Source: - Archives of North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Durham, NC.