- Collection:
- Paine College Library Digital Collection
- Title:
- John Wesley Gilbert, 1884
- Date of Original:
- 1884
- Subject:
- African American universities and colleges
Teachers colleges
African American teachers
African American students
Universities and colleges--Faculty
Methodist Church - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A portrait of John Wesley Gilbert. Paine Institute held its first class on January 1, 1884, in rented quarters on Broad Street in Augusta, Georgia among the first group of young people present that morning was John Wesley Gilbert, who stepped ahead of the others and enrolled as the first student of The New School. In 1886, when the first class was graduated, Gilbert was in the group. He furthered his education by graduating from Brown University, where his work was of such exceptional merit that he was given the opportunity to study in Athens, Greece. Upon returning to the United States in 1888, Dr. Walker, then president, asked him to come back to Paine Institute as a teacher. Gilbert accepted, and became the first African American to integrate the faculty of Paine Institute.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu/cdm/ref/collection/PCLD/id/0
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Physical rights of the images in this collection are retained by the Collins-Callaway Library, Special Collections and Archives of Paine College, or are protected by copyright. To order an item or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Collins-Callaway Library.
- Original Collection:
- Paine College, Collins-Callaway Library, Special Collections and Archives
- Holding Institution:
- Paine College. Library
- Rights:
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