Occupation – Educator – College President
Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. (1922-2016)
Tuskegee Airman and later College President Roscoe Conkling Brown, Jr., was born March 9, 1922, in Washington, DC, to Roscoe...
Makola Mjasiri Abdullah (1969- )
Internationally renowned academic administrator and engineer Makola Mjasiri Abdullah was born Makola Packard on June 22, 1969, in Chicago, Illinois,...
Julius Franklin Nimmons Jr. (1939- )
The academic historian and university administrator Julius Franklin Nimmons Jr. was born on September 11, 1939, in Danville, Virginia, to...
William Robert Harvey (1941- )
William Robert Harvey is an educator, businessman, academic administrator, and the longest-serving tenured HBCU president in history, as the 12th...
George Campbell Jr. (1945- )
Physicist George Campbell Jr. was born on December 2, 1945, in Richmond, Virginia, to Lilia and George Campbell. George’s parent...
Hamilton Hatter (1856-1942)
Hamilton Hatter, educator and inventor, was the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute in Bluefield, West Virginia. Hatter was born...
Anderson Ruffin Abbott (1837-1913)
Anderson Ruffin Abbott, Canada’s first Black doctor, was born on April 7, 1837, in Toronto, Ontario. He was the son...
Robert R. Moton (1867-1940)
Robert Russa Moton was born in 1867 on the William Vaughan Plantation in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Moton attended the...
Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown (1883-1961)
Born Lottie Hawkins in Henderson, North Carolina, in 1883, her family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, early in her childhood to...
