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:
“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
—Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)