Reared against the eastern sky
Proudly there on hilltop high
1920s Howard University students in full game face.
Photo by Addison Scurlock
Reared against the eastern sky
Proudly there on hilltop high
1920s Howard University students in full game face.
Photo by Addison Scurlock
My grandmother in 1946. Forever young, forever beautiful.
Bison. Forever the trailblazer.
Carole Henderson in a 1970 Dewar’s Scotch advertisement. At the time of this ad, she had a master’s degree in French and African Literature from Howard University. She went on to become, as Carole Henderson Tyson, the second Black woman to receive a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard in 1977. She is currently the Program Manager of The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs program at Howard.
Howard University Queen contestants, 1947. Photo via Flickr.
Alma Mater, over 50 yrs later.
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Side view to the top….”Cabin in the Sky” Lena Horne 1943 MGM
Barbara Morgan (American, 1900-1992)
Satyric Festival Song, 1935