Degrees
Production of bachelor's and
doctoral degrees since 1970-7! has
experienced greater growth—almost
double—in the SREB states than in the
nation and in the South. And the 102
percent increase in associate degrees
awarded Southern students was almost
double that for the nation during the
!970's.
Business and management was the
field of study chosen most often by all
groups of students (male, female, black,
while, Hispanic), at all degree levels,
nationally and in the South. The
computer sciences saw substantial
growth in enrollment. The popularity of
these career-oriented fields signals the
importance today's students place on
successful job placement following
graduation.
A declining number of degrees were
awarded in education at both the
bachelor's and master's levels.
However, this field continued to
account for the largest single number of
degrees awarded at the graduate levels.
Education remained the largest field for
both men and women at the doctoral
level.
Women increased their share of
degrees awarded at all levels nationally.
In the South, they earned a higher
proportion of degrees at all levels except
the first professional. The number of
first professional degrees doubled in the
last five years, accounting for one in five
degrees awarded in the region.
The traditional fields of library
science, home economics, and foreign
languages continue to attract the
majority of women students at all levels.
Fields showing the largest increase in
representation by women at the
master's level from .'975 to .'980, in
addition to business and management,
were engineering and law. Fields in
which women made marked
improvements in porportion of degrees
awarded regionally include
communications, health professions,
mathematics, and public affairs. Law
accounts for the largest number of
degrees awarded to women in the first
professional fields.
The declining number of blacks
enrolled in the biological sciences over
the past four years, nationally and in the
South, is a source of concern. However,
the number of Hispanic students
majoring in the field increased by a
substantial margin.
This Month
In Black History
(Research by Marion Crowe)
Jet Magazine
January 1, 1863
President Abraham Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation declaring
“free forever the slaves in Arkansas,
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina and
Virginia.” About 3,120,000 slaves were
thus declared free.
January 1, 1948
Fritz Pollard, Brown University's All
American halfback, became the first
black to play in the annual Rose Bowl
game in Pasadena, California. Brown
was defeated !4-0 by Washington State
University in the second of the classic
series.
January 1, 1922
Wally Triplett and Dennie Hoggard of
Penn State University saw action
against Southern Methodist University
in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. They were
the first blacks ever to play in the annual
New Year's Day Classic.
January 2, 1906
E. Simms Campbell, cartoonist and
artist, was born in St. Louis, Mo. He
contributed cartoons to many national
magazines including EBONY.
Campbell also illustrated children's
books and wrote articles on American
jazz. His cartoons appeared in every
issue of Esquire Magazine ! 933 - 58 and
almost every issue until his death in
197!.
January 3, 1966
The City Commission of Springfield,
Ohio, unanimously elected Robert C.
Henry, 44, as mayor of an intergrated
Ohio city, had been elected to his second
term as a city commissioner in
November 1965. Henry pointed out that
his duties as mayor (at $2,500 annually)
would be largely ceremonial with the
city manager handling most of the
executive mayors.
January 4,1888
Jefferson G. Ish, Jr., educator and in
surance executive, was born in Little
Rock, Ark. Ish was president of the Ar
kansas Stale Agricultural, Mechanical
and Normal College in Pine Bluff !9!5-
!92I. At the lime of his death he was
vice-chairman of the Board of Supreme
Life Insurance Company.
January 8, 1922
Colonel Charles Young, first black to
achieve that rank in the U.S. Army, died
in Lagos, Nigeria while on duty as a
military attache to the Liberian
republic. Colonel Young began his
famous ride on horseback at
Wilberforce, Ohio and ended it 16 days
later in Washington, DC. The ride was
in protest over the Army retiring him
one day before a long list of new
generals were to be made. He was the
sixth in line for promotion to brigader
general but was found physically unfit
and retired from active service.
January 12, 1948
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously
ordered Oklahoma “forthwith” to
provide Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher of
Norman, Oklahoma, the same
education in law that furnishes white
students. As a black she had been
barred from entering the University of
Oklahoma Law School.
January IS, 1929
Michael Luther King, civil rights leader,
was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He later
changed his name to Martin and went
on to become one of the leading forces
in the civil rights struggle of this
century. Dr. King entered Moorehouse
College with the intent of becoming a
doctor, but he was so greatly influenced
by the college president Dr. Benjamin
Mays, that he decided to study
Ministry. He was ordained by his father
in '948; and entered Crozer Theological
Seminary in Chester, PA, where he
graduated in !95!. Dr. King chose to
continue his study with two years of
philosophy at Harvard and earned his
Doctorate degree in Philosophy from
Boston University in !955. With a desire
to revolutionize the status of the
Southern blacks. Dr. King led a group
of Atlanta ministers to form an
organization which later became the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC). A prophet of
peace in a time of trouble. Dr. King
became the impassioned voice of the
people oppressed, upholding the
philosophy of nonviolence until death
by a sniper's bullet, April 4, !968.
January 16, 1892
Doctor Lewis Carson was born in
Marion, North Carolina. He owned and
operated Carson's Private Hospital in
Washington from !9I9 - '938. He was
one of the first black physicians in
Washington to operate in a white
hospital.
January 18, 1949
Congressman William T. Dawson of
Chicago was appointed chairman of the
Committee on Expenditures in the
Executive Department. He was the first
black to head a standing congressional
committee.
January 18, 1856
Doctor Daniel Hale Williams first
doctor to perform a successful heart
operation, was born in Pennsylvania.
Doctor Williams was the surgeon who
helped found Provident Hospital in
Chicago. He died August 4, !93'.
January 24,1835
Marlin R. Delaney, physican and
public official died in Xenia, Ohio. He
graduated from Havard University
Medical School. While practicing
medicine in Pittsburg, he was
instrumental in wiping out a cholera
epidemic in that city. Dr. Delaney was
interested in the American
Colonization Society because he felt
Africa would be a better place for
blacks. In the post Civil War years. Dr.
Delaney worked with the Freedman's
Bureau.
January 25, 1966
Constance Baker Motley became the
first black woman named to a federal
judgeship. She was born in New Haven,
Conn., of West Indian parents. Her
B.A. degree is from New York
University and her LLB degree is from
Columbia University Law School.
While a law school student, Ms. Motley
worked with the NAACP Legal and
Defense Educational Fund, Inc. In
'964, she was elected to the slate senate
becoming the only woman among fifty-
eight senators and the first black
woman in the history of New York to sit
in the upper chamber. In !965, she
became Manhattan Borough president,
winning by a unanimous vote of the city
council, thus becoming the first woman
to win that office.
January 27, 1869
Will Marion Cook, distinguished
composer, conductor and violinist, was
born in Washington, DC. He was the
son of a well-educated free parents who
had moved from Fredericksburg, VA.
Cook composed most of the music that
William and Walker made famous in
their series, including In Dahomey.
January 29, 1889
A. Wayman, a presiding elder in the
AME Church was born in Garnett,
Kansas. Rev. Ward was the first black
man to graduate from the University of
Denver. He was appointed by the
mayor of Chicago to serve as chairman
of the now defunct Relations
Commission. He organized the
NACCP in Colorado and black YMCA
in '920.
January 29,1926
Violette Anderson became the first
black woman lawer admitted to practice
before the US Supreme Court.
Attorney Anderson was a Chicagoan.
January 30, 1844
Richard Theodore Greener, first black
to graduate from Harvard College was
born in Philadelphia. Greener, a noted
educator and lawer, was famous for his
debates with Frederick Douglass on
whether or not blacks should migrate
from the post Civil War South.
January 31, 1952
Oscar L. Thompson, the first black to
receive a degree from the University of
Texas, was awarded a master's degree in
zoology. He later served as a research
scientist in the human genetics
foundation at the university.
Art Gallery
The Area of Art and Lyceum
program at Fayetteville State
University proudly commemorate
Black History month by presenting the
art of Dr. Oscar L. Logan in the
Rosenthal Art Gallery. Dr. Logan is a
sculptor. His sculpture is huge and
highly satirical, exploiting, and
exploring familiar aspects of black life.
The art exhibition opened February
7, !983 and will continue until March4,
!983. The show can be viewed Monday
through Friday from 9;00 a.m. till 4:00
p.m.
Dr. Logan was born March 30, !950
in Columbus, Mississippi. He received
the Bachelor of Science degree in art
education in !97! from Jackson State
University, Jackson, Mississippi; he
received the Master of Arts degree in art
education in !975, the Master of Fine
Arts degree in sculpture in !976, and the
Doctor of Philosophy degree in art
education in !98? from the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
Dr. Logan says “I prefer working
figuratively utilizing a variety of media,
i.e., clay (stoneware), plaster, metal
(bronze, aluminum), etc. 1 seek to
synchronize aspects of traditional
African art forms with African-
American sociocultural and political
experiences to form relevant visual
statements. Although much of my work
is highly satirical in nature, it is my hope
that it will cause viewers to think
seriously about “Black Life”
everywhere.”
Dig Your Own Holes!
By Genevieve IVl. Jones
Mr. Charles T. Byrd, Jr., C.P.A.
(Certified Public Accountant) of
Greensboro, N.C., spoke at the
Rudolph Jones Lecture Series,
Thursday, January 20, at 2:00 p.m.
The subject Mr. Byrd spoke on was
“The Entreprenurial Spirit—Do You
Have It?”
Mr. Byrd gave some characteristics to
which students can become a good
entrepreneur.
Mr. Byrd strongly believes that black
students must develop their own
economic basis. Byrd challenges the
students of FSU to “Dig your own
holes.” — “Create yourselves with your
own thoughts.'
“There is no progress without
struggle.” — Fredrick Douglas
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