Victorine Louistall Monroe Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3916
Papers of Victorine Louistall Monroe, the first African-American woman to receive a graduate degree from West Virginia University, 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.
This collection contains thirteen series:
Series 1. Biographical Materials; 1936-2006 (boxes 1-2)
Series 2. Correspondence; 1921-2006, undated (boxes 2-4)
Series 3. Photographs; 1908-1983, undated (boxes 4-5, 9)
Series 4. Newspaper Clippings; 1955-1989 (boxes 6 and 9)
Series 5. Kelly Miller High School; 1929-1998, undated (boxes 6 and 15)
Series 6. Alpha Kappa Alpha; 1944-1994, undated (boxes 7 and 14)
Series 7. Subjects; 1929-2002, undated (boxes 7-8)
Series 8. Miscellaneous; 1943-2004 (box 8)
Series 9. Scrapbooks; 1941-1980 (box 10)
Series 10. Awards; 1992-2003 (box 11)
Series 11. Artwork; undated (box 12)
Series 12. Artifact; 1981 (box 13)
Series 13. Motion Picture Film; 1938-1959, undated (box 15)
No special access restriction applies.
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Victorine Louistall Monroe (19 August 1912 to 6 October 2006) was born in Cumberland, Maryland to Campbell M. Louistall and Malinda (Waller) Louistall. The family later moved to Clarksburg, West Virginia, where Louistall attended Kelly Miller High School. She attended West Virginia State College (now West Virginia State University), where she was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, which she remained active in throughout her life. She graduated with a degree in business administration in 1936. She later attended West Virginia University, becoming the first African-American woman to earn a graduate degree there, receiving a Masters of Education in 1945.
After graduating from WVU, Louistall worked at Kelly Miller High School and Roosevelt-Wilson High School. She was hired as a professor at West Virginia University in 1966, becoming the first African-American to serve as a WVU faculty member. Louistall retired from WVU in 1978. She was appointed to the West Virginia Library Commission by Governor Jay Rockefeller, serving from 1980 until June 1992. She was also a member of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
Louistall married Ernest Monroe in 1981.
5.25 Linear Feet (Summary: 5 ft. 2 1/2 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each); (3 flat storage boxes, 3 3/4 in. each); (1 flat storage box, 3 in); (2 flat storage boxes, 1 3/4 in. each); (1 index card box, 4 3/4 in.))
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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.
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Separated to the book collection; forwarded to Curator of Books:
The Arch. Institute, WV: West Virginia State College, 1961.
Stealey, Robert F. Clarksburg. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005.
WVU Women: the First Century. Morgantown, WV: WVU Women's Centenary Project, 1991.
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository