Louisville Municipal College for Negroes Vol. 1 No. 1. May 1931; Annual Bulletin. Announcements for 1931-1932
34 pp. About VG+ stapled wraps (soiling, 2” stain to front cover, chip at top edge). Includes Calendar for 1931-1932 academic year, listings of Board of Trustees, Administration, and Faculty (Officers of Instruction), General Information including a history of the College, fees, room and board, admission and registration procedures, extra-curricular activities, Athletics, Lectures and Entertainments, Library, and Advantages of Location, as well as sections on advisers and tests, courses of study, pre-professional courses, evening and extension courses, and requirements for degrees. Courses offered in Biology (Zoology, Botany, Bacteriology, Genetics, and Cytology), Chemistry (Organic Chemistry, Teaching of Chemistry), Economics (Principles of Economics, Money and Banking), English (English Composition, Romantic Literature, Victorian Literature), History (The Negro in American Life, The Civil War and Reconstruction, A History of the Latin American Nations), Mathematics (Trigonometry, Analytic Geometry), Physics (General Physics, Light), Political Science (Municipal Government, Political Thought and Theory), and Romance Languages. Includes names of addresses of those enrolled in 1931 (a little more than half of the 83 students were female) and a blank Student Application.
The Louisville Municipal College for Negroes opened on February 9, 1931 as a segregated Black branch of the University of Louisville and was “the product of decades of organized political pressure on the part of African American Kentuckians” (Hudson, p. 111). The College was “established for the purpose of meeting the higher education needs of African Americans” and was one of three liberal arts colleges for African Americans established in the United States at that time before it closed in 1951.
The significant inaugural bulletin for the first black liberal arts college in Kentucky. Rare. Only later editions found at Illinois and Kentucky per OCLC. Item #924
Price: $850.00