Afro-Am Portfolio Collection | SHSU Special Collections & University Archives

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Series 1

Box 1

Folder 1: Afro-Am Portfolio No. 1, Circa 1969

Portfolio of influential African Americans in the Afro-Am Portfolio series, titled "Negroes in Our History" featuring illustrations and information on Robert S. Abbott, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Mary McCleod Bethune, Blanche K. Bruce, Harry T. Burleigh, George Washington Carver, Jeane Baptiste Pointe DeSable, Ferderick A. Douglass, Paul Laurnece Dunbar, Charles Gilpin, Matthew A. Henson, Jan Ernest Matzelinger, Garrett A. Morgan, Pinckney S.B. Pinchback, Robert Smalls, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mary Church Terrell, Harriet Tubman, Maggie Walker, Booker T. Washington, Phillis Wheatley, Daniel Hale Williams, and Carter G. Woodson

Folder 2: Afro-Am Portfolio No. 2, Circa 1969

Portfolio of influential African Americans in the Afro-Am Portfolio series, titled "Modern Negro Contributors" featuring illustrations and information on Richmond Barthe, Arna Bontempts, Edward W. Brooke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Bunche, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Dean Dixon Katherine Dumham, "Duke" Ellington, John Hope Franklin, Arthur G. Gaston, Langston Hughes, John H. Johnson, Percy Julian, Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, James B. Parsons, Sidney Poitier, Leontyne Price, A. Philip Randolph, Frank Silvera, William Grant Still, Robert C. Weaver, and Charles White

Folder 3: Afro-Am Portfolio No. 3, Circa 1969

Portfolio of influential African Americans in the Afro-Am Portfolio series, titled "Negroes of Achievement 1865-1915" featuring illustrations and information on Martin R. Delaney, Mifflin Wister Gibbs, John Mercer Langston, John R. Lynch, Samuel A. McElwee, James C. Matthews, Hiram Revels, John H. Smythe, James J. Spelman, Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, George W. Williams, Granville T. Woods, Miss Maria Louise Baldwin, Mrs. Cora L. Burgan, Mrs. Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Mrs. Katie Chapman Davis, Mrs. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. C.A. Johnson, Madam Elizabeth Keckley, Miss Mary E.P. Mahoney, Mrs. W.E. Matthews, Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Miss Gertrude J. Washington, and Miss Ida B. Wells

Folder 4: Afro-Am Portfolio No. 4, Circa 1969

Portfolio of influential African Americans in the Afro-Am Portfolio series, titled "Science and Invention" featuring illustrations and information on Benjamin Banneker, Andrew Beard, George Washington Carver, Lewis Latimer, Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Elijah McCoy, Garrett Morgan, Norbert Rillieux, Charles Henry Turner, H.C. Webb, Daniel H. Williams, Granville T. Woods, Otis Boykin, Charles Buggs, Charles Drew, Meredith Gourdine, William Hinton, Frederick M. Jones, Ernest E. Just, T.K. Lawless, Vance Marchbanks, Rufus Stokes, Ernest Wilkins, Jr., and Louis T. Wright

Folder 5: Afro-Am Portfolio No. 5, Circa 1969

Portfolio of influential African Americans in the Afro-Am Portfolio series, titled "Business and Professions" featuring illustrations and information on W.Q. Atwood, Paul Cuffe, Jean Baptiste De Sable, James Forten, Richard T. Greener, John Jones, Lunceford Lane, William Liedesdorf, John Merrick, John B. Russwurm, Madam C.J. Walker, William Whipper, Claude Barnett, Jesse Binga, Kenneth Clark, U.S. Dailey, E.F. Frazier, Frank L. Gillespie, Anthony Overton, Judge Parker, Gordon Parks, C.C. Spaulding, Robert Vann, and Paul Williams

Folder 6: Afro-Am Portfolio No. 6, Circa 1969

Portfolio of influential African Americans in the Afro-Am Portfolio series, titled "Religion and Education" featuring illustrations and information on W.E.B. DuBois, John Hope, C.S. Johnson, Alain Locke, Samuel Mitchell, Robert Moton, William Scarborough, Arthur Schomberg, Richard Allen, Lemuel Haynes, James A. Healy, John Jasper, Thomas Paul, Daniel Payne, Augustus Tolton, Mordecai Johnson, Benjamin Mays, Inman Page, Benjamin Quarles, Charles Wesley, Father Divine, Elijah Muhammad, Adam C. Powell, Sr., Howard Thurman

Folder 7: Afro-Am Portfolio No. 7, Circa 1969

Portfolio of influential African Americans in the Afro-Am Portfolio series, titled "Fighters for Freedom" featuring illustrations and information on Anthony Burns, William H. Carney, Joseph Cinque, Samuel Cornish, Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte L. Forten, Henry Garnet, Leonard A. Grimes, Josiah Henson, Lewis S. Leary, Jermain W. Loguen, J.W.C. Pennington, Robert Purvis, Charles L. Remond, Joseph Roberts, Peter Salem, "Pap" Singleton, James McCune Smith, William Still, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, Samuel R. Ward

Folder 8: Afro-Am Portfolio No. 8, Circa 1969

Portfolio of influential African Americans in the Afro-Am Portfolio series, titled "Champions of Human Rights" featuring illustrations and information on W. Montague Cobb, W.E.B. DuBois, T. Thomas Fortune, Marcus Garvey, Frances J. Grimke, Martin Luther King, John Mitchell, Isaac Myers, Mary Pleasant, James H. Robinson, Mary Barnett Talbert, Channing H. Tobias, William Monroe Trotter, Walter White, Ralph Abernathy, Julian Bond, Medgar Evers, James Farmer, Dick Gregory, Jessie L. Jackson, Floyd McKissick, Roy Wilins, Malcolm X, and Whitney M. Young

Folder 9: Afro-Am Portfolio No. 9, Circa 1969

Portfolio of influential African Americans in the Afro-Am Portfolio series, titled "Government and Judicial" featuring illustrations and information on Ebenezer R. Bassett, Richard H. Cain, Henry P. Cheatham, Oscar J. Dunn, Robert B. Elliot, James Lewis, Jefferson F. Long, P.B.S. Pinchback, James T. Rapier, James M. Trotter, George H. White, Jonathan J. Wright, Andrew F. Brimmer, Shirley Chisolm, John Conyers, William L. Dawson, Oscar DePriest, William H. Hastie, Patricia R. Harris, Charles H. Houston, Arthur W. Mitchell, Constance B. Motley, Adam C. Powell, Jr., and Hobart Taylor