Anthony J. Whitehead

Anthony J. Whitehead, Class if 1915. Dr. Whitehead graduated from the Western Reserve University Dental School. He established and maintained a practice in Cleveland

Armen Gloster Evans

Armen Gloster Evans, Class of 1920. Dr, Evans enrolled at Adelbert College in 1913. He combined three years of college and four years of medical school. As a student, he joined others to fight and work hard to establish Alpha Phi Alpha (Pi Chapter) on the Western Reserve University campus. Dr. Evans served on the staffs of Rainbow Babies and…

Barbara Nichols

Barbara Nichols graduated from the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Boston. In 1966, she earned a B.S. in Nursing from Case’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and an M.S> in Behavioral Disabilities from the University of Wisconsin. Over the course of her career, Ms. Nichols has held 23 offices in professional associations including President of the American…

Baseball Card for Rookie Leroy “Satchel” Paige

Leroy “Satchell” Paige baseball card. Baseball car featured color image of Paige in uniform, depicted from above the chest. Dark blue type at bottom at the car reads: [LEROY “SATCHELL” PAIGE]. The reverse side of the baseball card features a biography and statistics.

Betty Leola Smith Williams

Dr. Betty Leola Smith Williams received her Master’s degree in nursing from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in 1954. She received her undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Science, from Howard University in Washington. Bother her Ph.D. in Public Health and her Masters’s in Mental Health Nursing were awarded by the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Williams is the…

Bobby Smith Basketball Card

This Bobby Smith Basketball card is number 49 in a series of 264 manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1973-1974 NBA season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Cleveland Cavaliers forward. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Bobby’s nickname is ‘BINGO’” as well as short biographical sketch…

Carl A. Rouse

Carl A. Rouse, Class of 1951. Born in 1926, Dr. Rouse graduated from the Case Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a minor in mathematics. He then attended the California Insititute of Technology where he earned his M.S. in 1953. He earned his doctorate in physics, again with a minor in math, from Caltech in 1956….

Clash of Colors

Photograph shows students running toward an African American student set to defend himself during period of racial violence at Collinwood High School in Cleveland, Ohio.

Class of 1892 Oberlin Academy Preparatory School

A black and white photograph of the Oberlin Academy Preparatory School Class of 1892. There are three (3) rows of students. The first row is one (1) girl in a white dress. Her hair is pulled back and she has curls in the front. She appears to be kneeling on the ground. The middle row contains four (4) girls in…

Clemence Greene

Clemence Greene, Class of 1915. Ms. Greene received her degree in Pharmacology from Western Reserve University. She was the first African-American and the first African-American female to graduate from the School of Pharmacology. Ms. Greene established Greene’s Drug Store on East 40th and Central Avenue in the 1920’s.