We've all heard of Booker T Washington but have you heard of these 2, equally great, peers of his?

[IllmaticDelta]

Joseph Charles Price (February 10, 1854 – October 25, 1893)

was a founder and the first president of Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. He was one of the greatest orators of his day and a leader of African Americans in the southern United States. His death at the age of 39 cut short a career that might otherwise have vied with that of Booker T. Washington.

Joseph Charles Price was born free in Elizabeth City, North Carolina on February 10, 1854 to a slave father and a free mother.[1] His mother was named Emily Pailin and his father was Charles Dozier, a ship's carpenter. Dozier was sold and sent to Baltimore and Emily married a man named David Price, whose name Joseph took. When he was nine, he moved with his mother to New Bern, North Carolina, which had become a haven to free blacks after it was occupied by the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). That year he enrolled at St. Andrew's School led by James Walker Hood, who would be an important influence upon Price.[2] He also attended St. Cyprian Episcopal School, which was known as the Lowell Normal School of New Bern and was ran by the Boston Society.[1]

In 1871 he began his career as a teacher in the public school of Wilson, North Carolina. After four years he enrolled at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. At Shaw he converted the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and was granted a license to preach. He then enrolled in Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania to study classics. He graduated valedictorian from the classical department at Lincoln in 1879 and from the theology department in 1881. In 1880 he was a delegate to the M.E. General Conference in Montgomery, Alabama, and in September 1881 was a delegate to the Ecumenical Conference in London, England. He remained in England for one year raising money for the Zion Wesley Institute which would be used to help build Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. Among his patrons back in the United States, particularly met during a fundraising tour of California, were businessman William E. Dodge,[1] Alexander Walters, Senator Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins Jr., Mrs. Pleasant,[3] and Stephen V. White[4] Price was then installed as president of the school and was professor of oratory, mental and moral science, and theology.[5] He was also a noted figure in the 1881 North Carolina prohibition campaign.[6]


In the 1870s, Price married Jennie Smallwood of New Bern. The couple knew each other since childhood and had five children,[2] William, Louise, Alma, Joseph, and Josie.[7]

Price died at his home in Salisbury of Bright's disease on October 25, 1893.[10][11] The Dictionary of North Carolina Biography reports that, "W. E. B. Du Bois, August Meier, and others felt that it was the leadership vacuum created by Price's death into which Booker T. Washington moved, and that had he lived, the influence and reputation of Price and of Livingstone College would have been as great or greater than that achieved by Washington and Tuskegee."[2] At his passing George C. Rowe wrote a noted poem in his honor.[7][12] Other noted tributes to him were published in the New York Independent and Christian Advocate, the Boston Journal of Education and elsewhere.[13]

Price's oration was so renowned, he is considered one of the greatest voices of the nineteenth century, and the London Times called him "The World's Orator".[7] He was voted as one of the "ten greatest negroes" of the year in the September 20, 1890 edition of the Indianapolis Freeman.[14]

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In only twenty-two years from slavery’s chains, William Hooper Councill would rise to become an editor of his own newspaper, an author, a religious leader, a famed orator, a politician, a lawyer, and a civil rights pioneer, standing his ground on the battlefield of prejudicial practices years before Homer Plessy and Rosa Parks.

Sold on an auction block in the Deep South, Councill would return to that very site and become the first ex-slave in America to found and to become president of a school for higher learning, known today as Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University, opening the door for Booker T. Washington to teach in Alabama six years later.

Councill, a remarkable man was highly revered, and according to former Secretary of Alabama Frank Julian, was “the greatest man of the Negro race…. Undoubtedly the greatest benefactor of his own people that the Negro race has ever produced.”

This compelling biography reveals conditions in the segregated South and revisits the strategies Councill used in order to help elevate his race, while also attempting to mend the racial divide among all men in the country he loved. Read and learn about William Hooper Councill, a man whom the world once knew; explore his story of sacrifice, and witness the impact that his work generated that is still producing today. His life effort is truly a “glorious work well done.”

William Hooper Councill (July 12, 1849 – 1909) was a former slave and the first president of Huntsville Normal School, which is today Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama.[1]

He was born a slave in Fayetteville, North Carolina, ion July 12, 1849. His father escaped to Canada in 1854 and made several unsuccessful attempts to free his family.[2] He was taken to Huntsville, Alabama, by slave traders in 1857. He and his mother and brothers were sold as slaves from the auction block, at Green Bottom Inn to Judge David Campbell Humphreys. At this auction he saw two of his brothers sold in 1857, and never heard from again.[3] During the American Civil War, he and his brothers were taken into rural areas to keep them from the Union Army, but before the end of the war they escaped to Union lines. They attended the Freedmen's Bureau school opened by northerners in Stevenson, Alabama, in 1865 and remained until 1867, when he began teaching, the first person to teach a school for black students outside of a city in North Alabama - a position which caused frequent trouble with the Ku Klux Klan.[2]

 

[staticshock]

Props for this..I’ve never heard of Dr.Price, but I’m familiar with William Councill because we have a a building named after him at Alabama State, & had to learn about him during our ASU freshman orientation course.

So much dope stuff in here though, like learning that New Bern NC was a safe haven for blacks.

I’d love to find any old curriculum from HBCUS from the 1800s & early 1900s.

Good thread

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Props for this..I’ve never heard of Dr.Price, but I’m familiar with William Councill because we have a a building named after him at Alabama State, & had to learn about him during our ASU freshman orientation course.

dope

So much dope stuff in here though, like learning that New Bern NC was a safe haven for blacks.

I’d love to find any old curriculum from HBCUS from the 1800s & early 1900s.

Good thread

the 2 people below were also from the same time period/slightly earlier

William Jefferson White (December 25, 1831 – April 17, 1913)

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Thomas V. Gibbs (1855–1898)

served in the Florida House of Representatives for Duval County in 1885 and 1887. In 1885 he participated in the Florida Constitutional Convention. Gibbs was a cofounder of the State Normal College for Colored Students. Today, the school, now Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), is one of the nation's most prominent historically black schools.

History of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU)

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University was founded as the State Normal College for Colored Students, and on October 3, 1887, it began classes with fifteen students and two instructors. Today, FAMU, as it has become affectionately known, is the premiere school among historically black colleges and universities. Prominently located on the highest hill in Florida’s capital city of Tallahassee, Florida A&M University remains the only historically black university in the eleven member State University System of Florida.

In 1884, Thomas Van Renssaler Gibbs, a Duval County educator, was elected to the Florida legislature. Although his political career ended abruptly because of the resurgence of segregation, Representative Gibbs was successful in orchestrating the passage of House Bill 133, in 1884, which established a white normal school in Gainesville, FL, and a colored school in Jacksonville. The bill passed, creating both institutions; however, the stated decided to relocate the colored school to Tallahassee.

 

[staticshock]

dope




the 2 people below were also from the same time period/slightly earlier

William Jefferson White (December 25, 1831 – April 17, 1913)

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Thomas V. Gibbs (1855–1898)

History of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU)

Yep

I just learned about Rev. White a few weeks ago while surfing the wiki pages of different HBCUs.

I notice a good number of HBCUS started at one spot before they moved to where they are now.

 

[David_TheMan]

Props for this..I’ve never heard of Dr.Price, but I’m familiar with William Councill because we have a a building named after him at Alabama State, & had to learn about him during our ASU freshman orientation course.

So much dope stuff in here though, like learning that New Bern NC was a safe haven for blacks.

I’d love to find any old curriculum from HBCUS from the 1800s & early 1900s.

Good thread

You I remember Councill from Councill hall and they talked about him in the freshman orientation class. ONe of the few buildings not named after a white supremacist on campus.

OP thanks for the thread,definitely bookmarked.

 

[staticshock]

You I remember Councill from Councill hall and they talked about him in the freshman orientation class. ONe of the few buildings not named after a white supremacist on campus.

OP thanks for the thread,definitely bookmarked.

Bruh Mississippi Valley has a building named after one of the old segregationist governors from Mississippi back in the day..if I remember correctly, it’s a law or something they have to have a building named after him to continue to get funding from the state

Of course they could have reversed that, but even though MS has the highest percentage of blacks in the country, it’s government is still ran by old whites.

 

[staticshock]

You I remember Councill from Councill hall and they talked about him in the freshman orientation class. ONe of the few buildings not named after a white supremacist on campus.

OP thanks for the thread,definitely bookmarked.

Found it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sillers_Jr.



“He has been called "one of the most racist political leaders in Mississippi's history."[4] A building was named after him, for political reasons, at the historically black Mississippi Valley State University.”


https://www.mvsu.edu/sites/default/files/mvsu_new_campus_map_2017_8.5x11_0.pdf
Building #3

 

[David_TheMan]

Bruh Mississippi Valley has a building named after one of the old segregationist governors from Mississippi back in the day..if I remember correctly, it’s a law or something they have to have a building named after him to continue to get funding from the state

Of course they could have reversed that, but even though MS has the highest percentage of blacks in the country, it’s government is still ran by old whites.

Bibb Graves was a cyclops in the KKK, he made sure every fukking school in Alabama had a building named after him, even ASU. lol

Bibb Graves - Wikipedia

The University of Montevallo has a Bibb Graves Hall, the University of West Alabama has a Bibb Graves Hall and a Bibb Graves Auditorium, the University of North Alabama has a Bibb Graves Hall, Auburn University has both a Bibb Graves Amphitheatre and a Bibb Graves Drive, the School of Education at the University of Alabama is named for him, and the building housing the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University is named Bibb Graves Hall. The historically black Alabama A&M University has a Bibb Graves Hall that houses its School of Social Work and Department of Criminal Justice; and the historically black Alabama State University has a women's dormitory named Bibb Graves Hall. Jacksonville State University also has an administrative building named Bibb Graves Hall. Bob Jones University had a residence hall named for Graves until 2011, when it was renamed for H. A. Ironside.[7] Bibb Graves High School in Millerville, Clay County, Alabama, closed in 2003. A bridge in Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama, built in 1937, is named for Graves.[8]

 

[staticshock]

Bibb Graves was a cyclops in the KKK, he made sure every fukking school in Alabama had a building named after him, even ASU. lol

Bibb Graves - Wikipedia

The University of Montevallo has a Bibb Graves Hall, the University of West Alabama has a Bibb Graves Hall and a Bibb Graves Auditorium, the University of North Alabama has a Bibb Graves Hall, Auburn University has both a Bibb Graves Amphitheatre and a Bibb Graves Drive, the School of Education at the University of Alabama is named for him, and the building housing the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University is named Bibb Graves Hall. The historically black Alabama A&M University has a Bibb Graves Hall that houses its School of Social Work and Department of Criminal Justice; and the historically black Alabama State University has a women's dormitory named Bibb Graves Hall. Jacksonville State University also has an administrative building named Bibb Graves Hall. Bob Jones University had a residence hall named for Graves until 2011, when it was renamed for H. A. Ironside.[7] Bibb Graves High School in Millerville, Clay County, Alabama, closed in 2003. A bridge in Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama, built in 1937, is named for Graves.[8]

fukkin Alabama smh. They still have a Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis HS in Montgomery and the schools are in black areas and have majority black students. shyt like that wouldnt fly in Atlanta

 

[David_TheMan]

fukkin Alabama smh. They still have a Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis HS in Montgomery and the schools are in black areas and have majority black students. shyt like that wouldnt fly in Atlanta

I don't see a big deal.
I mean Lee, JD, and Lanier were all white schools for the majority of their lives.
Its always funny to me to see how hard they are repped now.

I mean now you have the Carver and Lanier folks, but when I was young JD was still majority black.