Famous Students of Wayland Seminary
Students at Wayland between 1867 and 1897 included a number of individuals who became famous African American citizens of the United States. These include:
- Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
- Dr. Booker T. Washington, prominent educator and political figure
- Reverend Harvey Johnson of Baltimore – pastor and early civil rights activist
- Kate Drumgoold, author of A Slave Girl’s Story: Being an account of Kate Drumgoold (1898)
- Alfred L. Cralle, inventor of the ice cream scoop.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or students:
“Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.”
—John Colton (1886–1946)
“I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts by black women. A working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn could become an expert on Shakespeare or Baudelaire, my students seemed to believe, if she mastered the language, the texts, and the critical literature. But they would not grant that a middle-class white man could ever be a trusted authority on Toni Morrison.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American scholar and educator. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B2 (July 27, 1994)