Nora E. Floyd Johnson Memorial photographs

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0176

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The photographs in this collection feature groups of students and adults from the Atlanta University and Morris Brown College participating in the football game festivities. Other images include unidentified individuals, female students from Atlanta University, Eugene Dibble, and the marching band.

Dates

Creation: 1911 February 6 - 1912 March 30

Conditions Governing Access

All materials in this collection are either protected by copyright or are the property of the Robert. W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc., and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. For more information, please contact archives@auctr.edu

Biographical / Historical

Nora Ethel Floyd (1893-1969) was born in Georgia in 1893 and attended Atlanta University in from around 1911-1913. She married John Rosamond Johnson, the brother of James Weldon Johnson (a founder of the NAACP), in 1913. John Rosamond Johnson was a renowned composer, known for writing Lift Every Voice and Sing (1900), which became known as the The Negro National Anthem. After marrying, the couple moved to New York City in 1914, where John was the director of the Music Settlement School for Colored People. The couple had two children, Mildred and Donald.