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Show moreFranklyn T. Bradshaw was awarded his Ph.D in 1971 from Case's Department of Computing and Information Sciences. His thesis is entitled Structure and Representation of Digital Computer Systems. He received his M.S.E.E. from Colorado State University in 1966. From 1971-77, he was an adjunct faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Bradshaw has published many articles in academic journals.
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Show moreFred D. Gray earned his law degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1954. In 1955, he represented Mrs. Rosa Parks, whose arrest and conviction for defying the statute segregating white and black passengers on public busses led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Mr. Gray successfully defended Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and 90 other ministers when Alabama officials tried to stop the boycott. In Gomillion vs. Lightfoot, Mr. Gray prompted a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that eradicated gerrymandering in Alabama. Attorney Gray served in the State House of Representatives as one of the first two African Americans members since Reconstruction. Mr. Gray was one of the two recipients of the Fletcher Reed Andrews Award as graduate of the year from the Case Western Reserve University Law School. In 1986, he was elected President of the National Bar Association.
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Show moreGeorge Sampson, Class of 1898. Before graduating from Adelbert College in 1898, Mr. Sampson distinguished himself as an athlete. He placed second in the 100 yard dash and the pole vault. He also played varsity basketball and was a quarterback and right guard for the football team. Mr. Sampson was elected Class Secretary in his sophomore year. After graduation, he continued his studies and received his M.A. from Western Reserve Uhiversity in 1899.
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Show moreGeorge T. Craig, Class of 1938. After graduating with a degree in Chemical Engineering, Mr. Craig was appointed to the Cleveland City Chemist's Office in the Air Pollution Division (1941). In 1962, he was placed in charge of the Air Pollution Laboratories. He was responsible for the chemical analysis of Cleveland's atmosphere related to industrial pollution.
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Show moreHarry E. Davis, Class 1908. Mr. Davis graduated from the Western Reserve University Law School in 1908. He was elected an Ohio State Representative in 1920. He served four terms in the state legislature and was then chosen by the Cleveland City Council to be the Civil Service Commissioner for the city, a position he held from 1928 to 1934. Mr. Davis was subsequently elected a State Senator for two terms (1947-48 and 1953-54). On June 10, 1947, he had the distinction of being the first black legislator to preside over the Senate. While in the Senate, Mr. Davis, with the cooperation of the NAACP, led the passage of legislation that improved statewide fair employment practices. His interest in the social, civic, and cultural progress of African Americans in Cleveland resulted in the manuscript, "History of the Negro in Cleveland." Mr. Davis died in 1955 at the age of 72.
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Show moreHerman Edward Gregory, Class of 1926. Dr. Gregory received his D.D.S from Western Reserve University Dental School in 1926. He started a practice on 50th Street near Woodland Avenue. After moving twice for better accomodations, Dr. Gregory established his last office on 55th and Woodland. Dr. Gregory invested in black-owned businesses, Capital Radio Company, and the Pilot Mutual Insurance Company, of which he was president.
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Show moreIcabod Flewellen, Class of 1993. Born in 1916, Mr. Flewellen was perhaps Case's oldest graduating senior. At age 76, he earned a bachelor's degree in American history. A dedicated student, Mr. Flewellen attended local schools and universites for over 40-years. He is probably best known for establishing Cleveland's African American Museum, most recently located on Crawford Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Flewellen developed the museum's collections while attending school, working in the maintenance department at Case, and selling real-estate. He was a well-recognized figure on campus, especially in the Case libraries. His passion and dedication to African American history and culture eventually led him to Russia and the Alexander Pushkin Museum, in what is now St. Petersburg, Russia. There, he was invited to view items not usually presented to the public. Pushkin, who is of African ancestry, is one of Russia's leading cultural icons. Before his death in 2001, Mr. Flewellen donated the considerable holdings of his museum to the East Cleveland Public Library. For further reading see: Biography, East Cleveland Public Library Icabod Flewellen, Pioneer of Black History Museums Obituary--Plain Dealer (Cleveland)--Authorized users; The Dream and Vision of Icabod Flewellen, African American Museum
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Show moreJohn M. Anderson, Class of 1897. Graduating from Western Reserve University Law School in 1897, Mr. Anderson partnered with Alexander H. Martin (see above). He later became involved with the Attacks Republican Club but left the group when he became dissatisfied during the 1900 presidential campaign. In 1908, Mr. Anderson became a charter member of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men. One of the first activities of the Association was to eliminate discrimination in the housing accommodations for African Americans attending the National Education Association held in Cleveland in 1908.
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Show moreJohn R. Philen, Class of 1902. Dr. Philen graduated from the Western Reserve University Medical School. He worked for a diary farm on Chester Avenue to finance his education. He established a practice on East 35th and Central Avenue. He later moved to Minnesota to practice but eventually returned to Cleveland.
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Show moreRev. John Sykes Fayette, Class of 1836. Rev. Sykes (pictured here with his wife) is cited as being the first documented African American student to attend Western Reserve College. The College was then located in Hudson, Ohio. Rev. Sykes, who excelled in mathematics, was a strong abolitionist. He graduated in 1836 and spent another year in Hudson as a theological student. After graduation, Rev. Sykes maintained a Methodist ministy in Barton, C.W., and elsewhere in Canada. Image courtesy of the institute for the study of the University in Society.
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Show moreJoseph Carroll, Class of 1893 (image not available). Educated in the Cleveland school system, Joseph Carroll graduated from the Western Reserve University Medical School in 1893. In 1900, he volunteered for the armed services in the Philippines. After completing two years of service, he returned to Cleveland.
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Show moreJuanita Vivian Gregory. In 1922, Ms. Gregory was awarded a diploma in nursing by Lincoln Hospital in New York. In 1938, she earned a certificate in Public Health Nursing at the School of Applied Social Sciences at Western Reserve University. In 1943, she became the first African American to receive a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Western Reserve University. She was also the first African American registered nurse to be hired by the Cleveland Health Department. She retired from the Department in 1964 when her eyesight began to fail. Beginning in 1932, with a trip to the Soviet Union, Ms. Gregory traveled extensively visiting Africa, Europe, Italy, and Hawaii. She died in 1987 at the age of ninety one.
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Show moreLeeroy Bronner. In 1973, Dr. Bronner was awarded a Ph.D by Case's Department of Systems Engineering. His thesis is entitled, A Minicomputer Software System for Design, Analysis, and Control of Large Scale Systems. A native of Akron, Ohio, Dr. Bronner held many positions over the course of his career including an adjunct professorship at Howard University and various titles at IBM.
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Show moreDr. Leslie Morgan Collins (Fisk Emeritus) Dr. Collins was awarded a Ph.D in 1945 by the Western Reserve University Department of American Culture. His thesis is entitled, A Song, a Dance, and a Play : An Interpretative Study of Three American Artists. In 1952, Dr. Collins returned to Case as a Ford Foundation Fellow and received a Master of Science in Library Science (M.S.L.S) with an accent on books and reading. He was honored in 1985 by the Case American Studies Department at its 40th year anniversary of conferring the doctorate in American Culture. Dr. Collins has published extensively throughout his career and was a professor of English at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennesee.
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Show moreLewis R. Gilbert, Class of 1900. Mr. Gilbert received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Case School of Applied Science in 1900. He became a draftsman with the Browning Engineering Company and later worked for the Packard Motor Company in Detroit. In 1905, Mr. Gilbert was employed by the Peerless Auto Company in Cleveland as an assistant mechanical engineer and designer. Working conditions in the U.S. caused him to leave and go to France to work at his profession until the outbreak of World War I.
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Show moreLouise Canneville Evans, Class of 1917. Mrs. Evans graduated with a degree in French and Latin from Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University. She earned the Phi Beta Kappa key as a student. After graduation, Mrs. Evans remained in the Cleveland area and taught French in junior high. She married Armen Claster Evans, a pediatrician, who graduated from Western Reserve University in 1920 (see page 1).
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Show moreDr. Mariane E. Musgrave received her Ph.D from Western Reserve University in 1960. Her dissertation was entitled, John Donne and the 'Songs and Sonets': A Socio-Psychological Study. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Howard University, Washington , D.C. She also published a "Literary Justification of Slavery in Blacks and the German Culture," and "Aichingers Das Plakat mit Beziahung auf Morgenstern and Keats." Dr. Williams was on the faculty of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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