Booker T. Washington’s Visit To Southern University and A&M College

On “April 15, 1915” Booker T. Washington visited the campus of Southern University and A&M College. The colored men who traveled with Dr. Washington represented organizations, business interests, faculty members, as well as state, parish, civic and educational leaders.

Dignitaries included the following persons:

Booker T. Washington [front row - seated fourth from left]; Emmett J. Scott, Secretary of Tuskegee University [formerly Tuskegee Institute]; R. R. Moton, Commandant of Cadets at Hampton Institute and president of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia [front row – seated seventh from left]; W. T. B. Williams, Field agent Jeanes Fund and Slater Board; M. W. Dogan, President Wiley University, Marshall, Texas, and president National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools; R. E. Jones, Editor of Southwestern Christian Recorder, New Orleans; Walter L. Cohen, Insurance broker, New Orleans [front row – seated to the right of Robert Moton]; Reverend Alfred Lawless, Jr., Superintendent of A.M.A. church work in Mississippi and Louisiana and field agent Straight University, New Orleans; Joseph Samuel Clark, President, Southern University, Baton Rouge [front row - seated to the right of Dr. Washington]; O. L. Coleman, President Coleman College, Gibsland, La.; J. S. Williams, President Louisiana State Negro Business League, Shreveport; Clement Richardson, Tuskegee – In charge of the English department; Dr. J. A. Kenney, Tuskegee – School physician and physician-in-charge at Andrew Memorial Hospital, Tuskegee; Dr. N. J. Marmilian, Lake Charles, La.; Reverend H. H. Dunn, Pastor Colored Congregational Church, New Orleans; H. W. Duncan, President Negro Business League, Shreveport; Horace D. Slatter, Newspaper correspondent, Birmingham, Ala.; R. U. Clark, Jeanes Fund industrial teacher, Crowley, La.; A. P. Bedou, Photographer, New Orleans; William Houston, Druggist, Alexandria, La.