Louistall, Victorine Augusta, 1912-2006

Overview

Papers of Victorine Louistall Monroe, the first African-American woman to receive a graduate degree from West Virginia University (WVU), and the first African-American to serve as a WVU faculty member. Contains material regarding Louistall's education, career, and personal life, including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, awards, and other material. See "Scope and Content Note" and "Historical Note" for further information.

Overview

Master's degree of West Virginia University's first female African-American graduate (1945) and a transcript of coursework completed (1940-1945). There is also a clipping of her obituary that appeared in the Morgantown Dominion Post on 10-22-2006.

Overview A multi-media packet containing publications and a videotape about the first one hundred years of West Virginia University as a co-educational institution. All of the materials document the achievements of women at WVU and provide a glimpse into female student life and how it has changed over the years. Names mentioned include Harriet E. Lyon, Agnes J. Morrison, Mary C. Busweel, Eva Hubbard, Blanche Lazzell, Victorine Louistall, Annette Chandler-Broome, Margaret Workman, Lea Anderson,...