Leadership and the Sustainability of Black Colleges and Universities

Within the U.S. higher education and society at large, a topic of continuing interest is the future of black colleges and universities. The nation's black institutions of higher education, despite ther size and stature, have proven their mettle, yet they face persistent challenge to their survival.

At the dawn of the twentieth century black men of distinction had long functioned in various leadership posts, especially in the churches and benevolent association movement. Some, notably Frederick Douglass among them, had even served in high government posts. But by and large they lived lives separate from those of the black masses and the white professionals. In 1904 a small group in Philadelphia set out to create an organization that would provide a vehicle for men of standing and like tastes to come together to know the best of one another.

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The Negro Lawyer and His Responsibility in the Urban Crisis, Part One

Raymond Pace Alexander, Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia, delivered this talk in Washington at the forty-third annual convention of the National Bar Association.