DC -- Howard University -- National Trust for Historic Preservation announcement about Founders Library:
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Description of Pictures: We'd like to invite you, as a member and supporter from the Washington, D.C. area, to join us at Howard University’s Founders Library for a special announcement about the historic site on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 at 2 p.m.
From the grand reading rooms to its iconic clock tower, The Founders Library has been a hub of African-American intellectual and creative achievement, as well as a central meeting place for higher learning and social activism, for more than 75 years.
National Trust for Historic Preservation President, Stephanie Meeks, and Howard University President, Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick, will share details about the new strategic partnership between the two institutions. The National Trust’s own Brent Leggs will also share remarks on why preserving more African-American historic places is critical to telling the full breadth of American history.
The audience included Robert Enholm (Executive Director of the President Woodrow Wilson House) and Chase Rynd (Executive Director of the National Building Museum).
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HOWNT1_160229_015.JPG: Proposed Plan for Development of Howard University
Washington DC
Albert I. Cassell, Architect
Scale: 1"=16'0" Date 1932
HOWNT1_160229_022.JPG: Robert A. Enholm, Executive Director of the President Woodrow Wilson House
HOWNT1_160229_085.JPG: Chase Rynd (Executive Director of the National Building Museum)
HOWNT1_160229_147.JPG: (left to right) Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick (Howard University President), Stephanie Meeks (President, National Trust for Historic Preservation), and Brent Leggs (National Trust)
HOWNT2_160229_001.JPG: Wayne A.I. Frederick
HOWNT2_160229_205.JPG: Stephanie Meeks
HOWNT2_160229_400.JPG: Brent Leggs
HOWNT2_160229_653.JPG: (left to right) Brent Leggs, Stephanie Meeks and Wayne A.I. Frederick
HOWNT3_160229_003.JPG: Fort Monroe
Hampton, VA
HOWNT3_160229_008.JPG: Fort Monroe
Hampton, VA
HOWNT3_160229_013.JPG: Villa Lewaro/Madam C.J. Walker Estate
Irvington, NY
HOWNT3_160229_021.JPG: Shockoe Bottom
Richmond, VA
HOWNT3_160229_023.JPG: Shockoe Bottom
Richmond, VA
HOWNT3_160229_027.JPG: African House
Natchitoches, LA
HOWNT3_160229_031.JPG: Rosenwald Schools
South, South West
HOWNT3_160229_230.JPG: Joe Frazier's Gym
Philadelphia, PA
HOWNT3_160229_237.JPG: Malcom [sic] X -- Ella Little -- Collins House
Boston, MA
HOWNT3_160229_278.JPG: Pullman Historic District
Chicago, IL
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Wikipedia Description: Howard University
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States.
Today, it is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and is partially funded by the US Government, which gives approximately $235 million annually. From its outset, it was nonsectarian and open to people of both sexes and all races. Howard has graduate schools of pharmacy, law, medicine, dentistry and divinity, in addition to the undergraduate program.
History:
In November 1866, shortly after the end of the Civil War, members of The First Congregational Society of Washington considered establishing a theological seminary for the education of African-American clergymen. Within a few weeks, the project expanded to include a provision for establishing a university. Within two years, the University consisted of the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Medicine. The new institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero, who was both the founder of the University and, at the time, Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. Howard later served as President of the university from 1869-74.
Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867, and much of its early funding came from endowment, private benefaction, and tuition. An annual congressional appropriation administered by the U.S. Department of Education funds Howard University and Howard University Hospital.
Howard University has played an important role in American history and the Civil Rights Movement on a number of occasions. Alain Locke, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and first African American Rhodes Scholar, authored The New Negro, which helped to usher in the Harlem Renaissance. Ralph Bunche, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner of African descent, served as chair of the Department of Political Science. Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Toure, ...More...
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2014_DC_Protecting_Nature_140330 Env Film Festival (2014) -- Protecting and Restoring Nature and Community (w/Annie Kaempfer, David Conover, and Stephanie Meeks) @ Carnegie Inst
Rynd, Chase appears on:
2011_DC_Ault_Opening_110310 Reynolds Center -- Event: Opening Reception -- "To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America"
2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
two additional trips to New York City, and
a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.