Eloquence of The Scribes

     A scribe is a person whose chiefly responsible for recording documents in a society. In ancient Egypt scribes held different statuses, they ranged from as a high as the royal scribes to as low as the scribes of livestock. Dr. Benjamin touched on scribes and scholars when she presented before our class. She also noted that scribes lost their importance after the advent of printing. Then she went on to teach who the extarordinary African American scribes and scholars were of Howard University and what buildings they were named after. General Howard invisioned a purpose to educate and open up an institution of higher learning to train African American doctors, lawyers, and writers. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Howard University's first president, and remained president for 34 years after uplifting the school's standards, requirements, and various graduate programs. Inabel Burns Lindsay worked to establish the school of social work and became its first dean in 1945. Alain Leroy Locke was an author and the first African American road scholar. Ira Aldridge was the first black actor to achieve fame in the theatre industry and was well known around the world. Prudence Crandall opened the first school for African American girls and Philis Wheatley was the first american poet to have their poems published. Charles R. Drew was the first director of the Red Cross and the founder of blood banks. George Washington Carver was an agricultural chemist that discovered 300 uses for peanuts. Earnest Everett Just was a pure scientist, who served as a professer of the medical school here at Howard, and head of the Department of Physiology until his death in 1941.