African American educators
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Ruby Jones Papers
File
Identifier: 037
Overview
Collection contains professional and personal correspondence, materials Ruby Jones might have used for educational purposes, materials pertinent to Civil Rights, booklets and information related to the Baha’i religion, materials related to the various organizations Ruby Jones belonged to including the sorority Phi Delta Kappa, and materials related to the Jones' family including newspaper clippings announcing the re-naming of West Chester’s former Demonstration School Building to Ruby Jones...
Found in:
West Chester University Archives
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Ruby Jones Papers
Dr. Walter Ridley papers
Collection
Identifier: 085
Abstract
Dr. Walter N. Ridley (1910-1996) was an accomplished professional in the world of higher education. In 1953, Dr. Ridley became the first black person to receive a doctorate from a Southern public university, after the State of Virginia integrated its all-white university system in 1950. Dr. Ridley ended his professional career as the Chair of the Department of Secondary Education and Professional Studies at West Chester University (then West Chester State College). Throughout his professional...