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Samuel DeWitt Proctor was born in Norfolk, Virginia on July 13, 1921. [1] Unusual for an African American born in this era, Proctor's grandparents on both sides had received education at the university level: his paternal grandmother had attended Hampton Institute, and both of his maternal grandparents had attended Norfolk Mission College,the forerunner of Booker T Washington High School in ...
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Samuel Proctor (March 29, 1919 [2] – July 10, 2005) was an American history professor and author. He taught at the University of Florida (UF) and wrote about the school and the state's history. He taught at the University of Florida (UF) and wrote about the school and the state's history.
Virginia Union University's Theological training program is called The Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. James Henry Harris , the early American civil rights advocate, was a graduate. The school is a member of the Washington Theological Consortium .
The program was founded by Dr. Samuel Proctor in 1967 as the University of Florida Oral History Program. Its original projects were collections centered around Florida history with the purpose of preserving eyewitness accounts of economic, social, political, religious and intellectual life in Florida and the South.
Dowdy served as acting President of A&T college from January, 1962 to September, 1963, while then President Samuel D. Proctor took a leave of absence to serve the country as Peace Corps director in Nigeria. [2] Dowdy would then be inaugurated as the college's sixth president on April 10, 1964, in the wake of Proctor's resignation.
Portrait of Samuel Johnson, also known as Blinking Sam, is an oil-painted portrait of English lexicographer Samuel Johnson reading, created by English artist Joshua Reynolds around 1775. The painting highlights Johnson's vision problems, which led Johnson to deride the painting and say that he would not be "Blinking Sam", as quoted in Hester ...
The apparent reasons for the plight of the poor people depicted vary – one may be a drunkard, there is an old man, a father holding his son's hand, an unaccompanied woman (perhaps a widow) with a child, and an invalid soldier in his redcoat. A well-dressed man to the left in a top hat speaks to a policeman, disturbed by the scene.