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(EDUCATION.) The Atlanta University scrapbook of Evelyn V. Ross. 63 photographs, 160 pieces of ephemera, and numerous newspaper clippings mounted on 49 scrapbook leaves, 13 x 8½ inches. Original string-bound cloth boards; scrapbook leaves and a few clippings moderately chipped, otherwise contents in generally sound condition. Atlanta, GA, circa 1927-1936
Evelyn Venora Ross (circa 1910-2000) was raised in Atlanta, the daughter of a Pullman porter, and graduated from Atlanta University with the Class of 1930. Her college sweetheart Ralph Clarence "Hog Maw" Robinson (1904-1964), a star athlete, makes regular appearances in the scrapbook. They were later married, and he served as the basketball coach at Clark University. She became an award-winning high school Latin and English teacher in Atlanta. The Evelyn Ross Robinson scholarship was established in her name at Clark Atlanta University in 2001.
Most of the scrapbook is devoted to Evelyn and Ralph's college years, his early coaching career, and her early post-graduation activities with her sorority Delta Sigma Theta (including a piece of manuscript music titled "To Sigma Chapter"). A slip from the school's popularity contest notes that she received 10 votes for "most popular girl in Atlanta University." A few family photos are included. Laid in is a 6 x 4-inch matted group portrait of 9 suited men including Evelyn's father, noted on verso as "Zach Manson Ross, Pullman porter."
Two pages of the scrapbook are devoted to the story of William "Ten-Cent Bill" Yopp (circa 1849-1936), who had accompanied the 14th Georgia regiment of the Confederate Army as an enslaved servant, and spent his final years as the only Black resident of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Atlanta. He remains celebrated today by those who believe that Blacks fought willingly for the Confederacy, and was honored on Georgia's Confederate Memorial Day in 2014. Included are six clippings about his death, two original photographs, and a typescript note on "The Funeral Service of Mr. William Yopp, One of Our Very Best Friends."
