Georgia childhood; University of Chicago; YMCA administrator, 1917-19; history of black colleges in Atlanta; evolution of segregated land-grant colleges in West Virginia; President, West Virginia State College, 1919-50: faculty recruitment, building program, establishment in North Central Association, 1926, Reserve Officers Training Corps for black colleges; black masonic lodges; first black member of National Education Association; American technical assistance to Liberia, role of Firestone in diplomatic relations; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1954- : impressions of Ralph Bunche, Mary McLeod Bethune, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Carter Woodson, Harry S. Truman, Thurgood Marshall
College presidents; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Segregation; African American universities and colleges; African American universities and colleges--Administration; African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc; Race discrimination--United States; United States Civil rights; Davis, John W. (John Warren), 1888-1980; YMCA of the USA; West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.); North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (U.S.); National Education Association of the United States; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund