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Photograph of Howard Orphanage and Industrial School ca. 1915. The Howard Colored Orphan Asylum was one of the few orphanages to be led by and for African Americans. [1] It was located on Troy Avenue and Dean Street in Weeksville, a historically black settlement in what is now Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. [2]
The Colored Orphan Asylum was an institution in New York City, open from 1836 to 1946. It housed on average four hundred children annually and was mostly managed by women. [ 1 ] Its first location was on Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan , a four-story building with two wings.
It was then renamed the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. [5] The school building burned down on April 5, 1920 and a new building was constructed between 1922 and 1923. A separate institution, the State Industrial Home for Colored Girls, was established in a building constructed on the property between 1924 and 1926, also of three stories. [2]
"Our race, we think, is depressed enough, without exhibiting one of us with the apes", said the Reverend James H. Gordon, superintendent of the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn. "We think we are worthy of being considered human beings, with souls." [30]
Mitchell was a founder of the Colored Orphans Industrial Home in Lexington, Kentucky. One of the 15 local black women listed as the board of directors in the incorporation filed in Sept 1892, she was elected board president. Originally the institution was a home for elderly African American women without family to care for them.
Howard H. Railey (died December 19, 1936) was an American politician from West Virginia. A Republican, he represented Fayette County, West Virginia in 1904 in the West Virginia House of Representatives. [1] He served as superintendent of the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. He died at his home in Institute, West Virginia. [2]
In 1985, Whoopi Goldberg introduced fans to Celie when she portrayed the character on-screen in the first "The Color Purple" film. Now, nearly 40 years later, Fantasia Barrino is taking on the ...
Mathilda Taylor Beasley, OSF (November 14, 1832 – December 20, 1903) was a Black Catholic educator and religious leader who was the first African American nun to serve in the state of Georgia.