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[Identification of item], in the Virginia Omega Collier Photograph Album #70146, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchased by the North Carolina Collection, in January 2023; accession no. 20231003.1.

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Processed by: Patrick Cullom and Saija Denay Wilson, 2023

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• African American women--Societies and clubs--Photographs.
• African Americans--Education(Higher)--North Carolina--Greensboro--Photographs.
• African Americans--Education(Higher)--North Carolina--Greensboro.
• African Americans--Education--North Carolina--Photographs.
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• African Americans--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina--History--Photographs.
• Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina--History.
• College campuses--North Carolina--Greensboro--Photographs.
• Women--Education(Higher)--North Carolina--Greensboro-Photographs.
• Women--Education(Higher)--North Carolina--Greensboro.

• Barber-Scotia College Photograph Album, circa 1931-1934 (70144).

Virginia Omega Collier of Plainfield, N.J., was the daughter of a A.M.E. pastor. She enrolled at North Carolina's Shaw College, located in Raleigh, N.C., in 1938 and then attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, located in Greensboro, N.C., from 1941 to 1943. Ephemera includes a program for her cousin Vivian Collier, "Colored Soprano," at Manhattan's Town Hall, 1942. Clippings document her sister Elouise's admittance as the second Black student at the Yale School of Nursing, and community recognition of her father's long service as a clergyman.

Virginia Omega Collier, a Black woman who attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, located in Greensboro, N.C., from 1941 to 1943, compiled this photograph album in the 1940s. The album documents her time at the University as well as her family life and home in Plainfiled, N.J. The album includes images depicting Collier and her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters, students in classroom settings, vacations on the Jersey Shore, soldiers on leave, and events including university homecoming parades. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University was the first land grant funded historically Black college or university in North Carolina after the U.S. Civil War when it was founded in 1891.