Occupation – Education – University Administration – President
Lyman Beecher Brooks (1910-1984)
Educational administrator Lyman Beecher Brooks, the first president of Norfolk State University, was born on May 27, 1910, in Blakes,...
Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984)
Educational administrator Albert Walter Dent was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 25, 1904, to Daisy Dent. Information was not...
Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (1919-1989)
Elizabeth Duncan Koontz was the first African American president of the National Education Association (NEA) which at that point was...
Ivory V. Nelson (1934- )
Former University President Ivory Vance Nelson was born on June 11th, 1934 in Curtiss, Louisiana. Not much is available about...
Irving Pressley McPhail (1949-2020)
Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail was a professor, mentor, President of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc (NACME),...
Rodney D. Bennet ( 1966- )
“Image Ownership: Flacourtphile (CC BY-SA 4.0)” Rodney D. Bennett is the current president of the University of Southern Mississippi. He...
Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924- )
Jewel Plumber Cobb, a cell biologist and cancer researcher, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 17, 1924, to Frank...
Louis Wade Sullivan (1933- )
After witnessing poverty and discrimination in Depression-era Georgia, Louis Wade Sullivan committed his career to education and public service, rising...
Julius W. Becton Jr. (1926- )
Lieutenant General Julius Wesley Becton Jr. was born on June 29, 1926 to Julius and Rose Becton in Bryn Mawr,...
