Scope and Contents The Fort Valley State College was founded in 1895 as the Fort Valley High and Industrial School, for the purpose of providing a higher education for the black citizens in Georgia and the southeastern United States. The college subsisted largely on contributions from religious organizations and private individuals until 1939 when the School was consolidated with the State Teachers and Agricultural College for Negroes at Forsyth. The present name of the School was adopted by the Board of...

Scope and Contents This series contains various issues of the Flame, the college yearbook published by the senior class of Fort Valley State College in Fort Valley, Georgia. As is the case with all such yearbooks or annuals, an issue is published every school year, and each is replete with photographs and prose documenting virtually every phase of that school year. The various volumes further serve as rosters of all the students attending the college, as well as the faculty members connected with the...

Scope and Contents This publication is described on its masthead as the "Official Organ of Student Expression" at Fort Valley State College. Published thrice annually, a typical issue might contain articles on: (1) Student activities not connected with the college (2) Profiles of faculty members (3) Elections of campus beauties (4) Examples of student creative writing (5) The Faculty Front (6) Social activities (7) Student organizations (8) Sports activities and (9) Alumni Notes. Averaging about 30 pages in...