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Submitted: 10/12/14 • Approved: 10/12/14 • Last Updated: 3/24/18 • R71914-G0-S3
October 13,1903
July 5,1970
Felton Grandison Clark, educator. Born, Baton Rouge, La., October 13, 1903; son of Joseph Samuel and Octavia (Head) Clark.
Education: attended Southern University, 1920-1922; Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., A. B., 1924; later Beloit conferred a Phi Beta Kappa Key for scholastic achievement and an honorary Doctor of Law degree; Columbia University, M. A., 1925, and Ph. D., 1933. Teaching at Howard University, Washington, D C, when invited to join the faculty of Southern University. Became president of Southern University, July 1, 1938, on retirement of father, Joseph S. Clark.
Honor Fraternities include Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Phi Omega, Pi Gammu Mu, Beta Kappa Chi, Sigma Pi Phi. A Thirty-third Degree Mason; a Baptist.
Married Allene Knighton, August 17, 1958.
President of Southern University for thirty years, a time of great change in black education. Retired October 13, 1968. Died, July 6, 1970; interred on the "bluff" on the Southern University campus, Baton Rouge, La. M.C.R.
Sources: Iris Johnson Perkins, "Felton Grandison Clark: Louisiana Educator" (Ph. D. dissertation, Louisiana State University,1976); various newspaper articles in the Louisiana State Library vertical files, Baton Rouge, La.
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Contributed on 10/12/14
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