Dent Family Collection
Finding Aid Contents
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Collection Summary
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Administrative Information
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Biographical Note
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Chronology
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Description of Series
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Container List
Creator: Dent Family Collection, 1927-1984
Extent: 1 linear ft.
Scope and Content:
The Dent Collection consists of material representing the Dent family’s
contributions to education, culture and race relations. The collection
spans the years 1927 to 2001. Included are programs, biographical
information, correspondence, writings, publications and articles.
Administrative
Information
Preferred Citation: Dent Family Collection, Will W. Alexander
Library, Dillard University.
Information concerning copyright must be secured in writing from the Director of
the Will W. Alexander Library.
Processed by: Laura Kersting and Kerrie Cotton Williams
Date completed: 2/25/02
Jessie Covington and Albert W. Dent
A graduate of Morehouse College, Mr. Dent became superintendent of Flint-Goodridge
Hospital after a brief business career in Georgia and Texas.
For six years he served simultaneously as business manager of Dillard
University and superintendent of Flint-Goodridge Hospital.
In 1931 he married Ernestine Jessie Covington. From 1941 to 1969 Albert Dent was the president of Dillard
University.
Tom Dent
Born in 1932, Tom Dent grew up in
a socially aware southern family and graduated from Morehouse College in 1952.
His writing career began around that time when he was hired at the Houston
Informer and he later wrote for New
York Age. In 1961 he became a public information worker for the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational
Fund. Through that assignment he became deeply involved in the civil rights
movement and the importance of the struggle was reflected in some of his
writings. After living in New York,
Tom Dent returned to New Orleans where he helped run the Free Southern Theater
and then taught at local universities.
Chronology
Chronology of Jessie Covington and Albert W. Dent
1904
Albert W. Dent born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1904
Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent born in Houston, TX.
1926
A.B., Morehouse College.
1931
Married Ernestine Jessie Covington.
1938-1931
Alumni Secretary, Morehouse College
1932-1941
Superintendent, Flint-Goodridge Hospital.
1935-1941
Business Manager, Dillard University.
1941-1969
President of Dillard University.
1947
L.L.D., Morehouse College.
1984
Albert W. Dent dies.
2001
Jessie Covington Dent dies.
Chronology of Tom Dent
1932
Born in New Orleans.
1950-52
Reporter, Houston Informer.
1952
B.A., Morehouse College.
1957-59
Military/Wartime Service: U.S.
Army.
1959
Reporter, New York Age.
1961-63
Public information worker for Legal Defense Fund, NAACP.
1966-70
Associate director, Free Southern Theater, New Orleans, La.
1968-70
Instructor, Mary Holmes College.
1973-74
Whitney Young fellow.
1974
M.A., Goddard
College.
1979-81
Instructor, University of New Orleans.
1998
Died in New Orleans.
Description
of Series
Series 1 Box 1 Folders
1-38 Albert W. Dent material
Subseries:
School Publications Box
1
Folders 1-5
Writings & Addresses Box
1
Folders 6-10
Programs
Box
1
Folders 11-14
Correspondence
Box
1
Folders 15-19
Collected Articles
Box 1
Folders 20-24
Collected Publications Box
1
Folders 25-33
Miscellaneous
Box 1
Folders 34-38
Series 2 Box 2
Folders 39-47 Jessie
Covington Dent material
Subseries:
Addresses & Dedications Box
2 Folders 39-41
Collected Publications Box
2 Folders 42-43
Programs
Box 2 Folders 44-46
Newspaper Clippings Box
2 Folders 47
Series 3 Box 2
Folders 48-54 Tom Dent
material
Subseries:
Programs &
Flyers
Box 2 Folders 48-50
Writings
Box 2 Folders 51-53
Newspaper Clippings Box
2 Folders 54
Container List
Box 1
Series
1: Albert W. Dent Material
Sub-series: Collected
School Publications:
f.
1 Morehouse
College Annual Catalogue, 1927-28.
f. 2
General Catalogue of Atlanta University 1867-1929.
f.
3 Fisk University Student
Handbook, 1934-35
f.
4 The M Book, 1937-38.
f.
5 Morehouse College
Bulletin, Fall 1976.
Sub-series: Writings
and Addresses
f.
6 Dent, A. W.: “A Hospital
Goes to the People”, <Feb. 10, 1938>
f. 7
Dent, A.W.: “Postgraduate Work for Physicians …”, <1941>
f.
8 On the Education of Women:
An Address by President Albert Dent
of Dillard University, Spelman Messenger, Vol. 61, No. 1, Nov.
1944.
f.
9 Dent, A. W.: Hospital
Services and Facilities Available to Negroes in
the
United States, <1949>
f.
10 Dent, Albert W.: Now and
Tomorrow: Role of the Voluntary
Agency in the Health Field, <1954>
Sub-series:
Programs
f.
11 The Faculty of the Kashmere Gardens High School Seventh Annual
Professional Banquet, May 1964.
f. 12
Roy Wilkins, 75th Birthday Celebration, Sept. 1976.
f.
13 The Times-Picayune Loving
Cup for 1976, Sept. 25, 1977.
f.
14 A Service of Memory and
Thanksgiving for Dr. Albert Walter Dent,
Feb.
15, 1984.
Sub-series:
Correspondence
f.
15 From Joseph A. Califano.
Jr., Special Assistant to President Lyndon
B. Johnson, Mar. 6, 1968.
f.
16 From Dr. Michael L. Lomax
(Phi Beta Kappa), April 9, 1973.
f.
17 To Dr. Michael L. Lomax,
April 12, 1973.
f.
18 From
Benjamin E. Mays (Phi Beta Kappa), April 17, 1973.
f.
19 [Note] to “Albert”
from “Cliff” on photocopied article: “From
Hospital to College …”, <1982>.
Sub-series:
Collected Articles
f.
20 “Negro Health”, Time,
April 8, 1940.
f. 21
“Novel Intern Fellowships to Honor Albert W. Dent are Created by
College”, AHA News, Vol. 39, No. 5, 1975.
f.
22 “Dr. Dent is Recipient
of Times-Picayune Loving Cup”. Aug. 21,
1977.
f.
23 Harrison, Elton C.:
“Archon Albert W. Dent Becomes the First
Black
Recipient of the Times-Picayune Loving Cup, The Boule
Journal, Fall
1977.
f.
24 D.P. Cushing,
Congregational Press Bureau, Biographical article,
n.d.
Sub-series:
Collected Publications
f.
25 The Oracle, Vol.
18, No. 3, 1939.
f.
26
The Oracle, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1940.
f.
27 New South, Vol. 11,
No. 1, 1956.
f.
28 New South, Vol. 17,
No. 4, 1962.
f.
29 Louisiana: 1961
Report to the Commission on Civil Rights from the
State Advisory Committee.
f.
30 Black Americans in
Science and Engineering, Inscribed with notes
and photograph by Charles W. Buggs, Sept. 1977.
f.
31
Congressional Record, Vol. 115, No. 87, 1969.
f.
32 The Story of Isom
Wilson … Committee on the Rehabilitation of
the
Wilson Family, n.d.
f.
33 Committee
Structures by Bruce Brown, n.d.
Sub-series: Miscellanous Material
f.
34 Biography of
President, Dillard University News Service, 1964.
f. 35
Proposal for Identification- ACHA Work-Study Fellowship; Special
Resolution for Dr. Albert W. Dent, n.d.
f.
36 Certificate of Life
Membership of the NAACP, Jan. 24, 1955.
f.
37
Application: Albert Walter Dent Research Award, National
Association of Health Services Executives, n.d.
f. 38
Various Newspaper clippings, n.d.
Box
2
Series
2: Jessie
Covington Dent Material
Sub-series: Addresses
and Dedications
f.
39 Antioch Chimes
Remarks, Nov. 25, 1990.
f.
40 Dedication Service:
Covington Memorial, Nov. 25, 1990.
f.
41 Dedication of the
Official State of Texas: Historical Marker
Honoring Dr . Benjamin Jesse Covington …, July 29,
1995.
Sub-series:
Collected Publications
f.
42 Ebony Fashion Fair
Magazine, 1997.
f.
43
Ebony Fashion Fair Magazine, 1999.
Sub-series:
Programs
f.
44 DWC (Dillard
Women’s Club) Testimonial Banquet honoring Mrs.
Albert
W. Dent, 1968.
f.
45
Amistad Fine Arts Award, Jessie Covington Dent, Recipient, Sept.
27, 1985.
f.
46 A Celebration of
the Life of Jessie Covington Dent, March 15,
2001.
f.
47
Newspaper clippings
Box 2
Series 3: Tom Dent Material
Sub-series: Programs
and Announcements
f.
48 Funeral Services for Tom
Dent, March 20-1932- June 6, 1998.
f.
49 New Orleans Public
Library: The Annual Tom Dent Forum.
f.
50 First
Annual Tom Dent Tennis Tournament, 2002.
Sub-series: Writings
f.
51 Dent, Tom.
Magnolia Street, 1976.
f.
52 Dent, Tom: Designs for
Claiborne Ave.; Octave Lilly, Jr.: In
Memoriam,
Black River Journal, Summer 1977.
f.
53 Dent, Tom: New Orleans,
Atlanta & Politics: Some Thoughts; Sam
Cook and Academic Excellence at Dillard.
Sub-series: Newspaper clippings – f. 54