Bond, Horace Mann
Born: Nov 08, 1904 AD
Died: 1972 AD, at 68 years of age.
Nationality:
American
Categories:
Educators
1904 - He was born on the 8th of November in Nashville, Tennessee.
1923 - He graduated from Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) at the age of 19.
- Bond earned the M.A. and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago.
1929 - He married Julia Agnes Washington, a student he met while on the Fisk faculty.
1934 - He became dean at Dillard and chairman of the education department at Fisk University.
1936 - He won the Rosenberger Prize.
1939 - He served as the first president of Fort Valley State University, in Fort Valley, Georgia.
1945 - He became the first African American president of Lincoln University.
1946 - He was harassed at school and was accused of stealing money from his school's charity account.
1957-1966 - He served as dean of School of Education at Atlanta University.
- Wrote Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University; The Education of the Negro in the American Social Order, and The Education of the Negro in Alabama.
1972 - Horace Mann Bond died on the 21st of December.
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