Lecture: Doctor Edward S. Hope

Object Details

Creator: Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Names: Anacostia Community Museum; Anacostia Neighborhood Museum; Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.); Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963; Hope, Edward S.; Hope, John, 1868-1936; Kinard, John, 1936-1989; Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Collection Creator: Anacostia Community Museum

Topic: African Americans; Educators; African American educators; Education; Education, Humanistic; African American universities and colleges

See more items in: Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989; Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989 / Recordings of lectures

Citation: Lecture: Doctor Edward S. Hope, Record Group AV09-023, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Scope and Contents: Doctor Edward S. Hope talks about schools and education. He speaks of African American contributions to higher education, paricularly those of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. duBois, and his father, John Hope. He talks about liberal arts colleges, particularly Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Atlanta University. Hope also reminsciences about growing up at Morehouse College, where his father was the president, his education, and his work at a coffee shop and power plant in his younger years. Introduction by John Kinard.; Lecture. Poor sound quality. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. Undated.

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