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Percy Glascoe's Plantation Orchestra
_Old Colored YMCA - Druid Hill Ave 1
Percy Glascoe's Plantation Orchestra
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The Man Behind the Music: Theodore Milton Selden
#CelebrateBlackHistoryMonth2026 #HBCUCollectedTreasures #BlackHistoryisEverywhere #NegroHistoryDetective #ArtifactualJourney #AlumniNameSake Although Black History Week Celebrations did not begin until 1926, we know that our Black history extends well before that particularly with the founding of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1854. They are the first degree granting HBCU in the nation. The artifact below is one of the numerous rare artifacts housed in our Lincolnian
Philip J. Merrill
Feb 6
Lockett Family of Macon, Georgia
#BlackHistoryMonth2024 #TellTheTruthTuesday #HBCUCollectedTreasures #LincolnUniversityPA #HistoricDrip The #LockettFamilyCollection cont...
Philip J. Merrill
Feb 13, 2024
Women's History Month: Bessie Anderson, Black Baltimore Educator
#WomensHistoryMonth2023 #ColoredTrainingSchool (now #CoppinStateCollege)- then located at #DolphinStreet and #PennsylvaniaAvenue...
Philip J. Merrill
Mar 3, 2023
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Founder's Day
#OTD #AlphaPhiAlphaFraternityInc was founded-December 4, 1906 116 years ago #CornellUniversity #IthacaNewYork #TheSevenJewels #DivineNine...
Philip J. Merrill
Dec 4, 2022
William Pickens, Sr.
#HBCUCollectedTreasures #MorganCollege (now #MorganStateUniversity) #NationalTreasure #1919Letter from #WilliamPickensSr (1881-1954),...
Philip J. Merrill
May 7, 2022
Happy Birthday Langston Hughes!
#BlackHistoryMonth2022 #HBCUCollectedTreasures #HappyBirthdayLangstonHughes #LincolnUniversityPA #AfroLiteracy Starting off #BHM2022 by...
Veronica A. Carr
Feb 1, 2022
Merry Christmas
#MerryChristmas #BlackHistoryisEverywhere #HBCUCollectedTreasures #HBCU #HowardUniversity #FreedmansHospitalTraining School #WashingtonDC...
Philip J. Merrill
Dec 25, 2021
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