Mary Ng'ayu Photograph Album

Collection

Identifier: MC 2647

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Content Description

Photograph album created by Mary Njeri Ng'ayu, an international college student from Kenya, while she was in the United States between 1960-1963.

The album includes a number of photographs on the campus of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, including of the Cox Administration Building, dormitories, the Library and Fine Arts Building, a graduation ceremony, and a parade.

Other scenes in Little Rock include the “colored entrance” to a building with Cook’s Paints and the Lafayette Hotel in the background; Hall Senior High School; a football game; Houston-Bigelow Bus Line buses; Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church; Mark’s Chapel United Methodist Church; and a man standing on Arch Street with a Crow-Burlingame Co. auto parts store in the background.

Other photograph subjects include the airport in Nairobi, Kenya; Ng’ayu’s flight from Nairobi to New York; New York, New York; dancing; and Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Dates

1960-1963

Creator

Ng'ayu, Mary Njeri (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Conditions Governing Use

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical / Historical

Mary Njeri Ng'ayu was a Kenyan woman who, as a college student, studied in the United States as part of the Kennedy Airlift program.

In 1960, she was a student at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and was sponsored by the African American Students Foundation. She later transferred to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she was in the senior class in 1964 and studied Liberal Arts Studies and Sociology. In Kenya, she had studied at the Royal College in Nairobi.