Thomas J. Calloway

Thomas Junius Calloway (August 12, 1866–May 19, 1930) was an African-American journalist, educator and lawyer. He was born in Cleveland, Tennessee, the fifth of seven children.[1]

Calloway graduated from Fisk University in 1889 and was an undergraduate classmate of W. E. B. Du Bois.[2][3] He attended law school at Howard University, earning a law degree in 1904.[4] While attending law school, he worked as a clerk at the War Department.[1][5]

Calloway taught English at a high school in Evansville, Indiana, and served as principal of the Helena (Arkansas) Normal School, president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in Mississippi, and assistant principal to Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute (now known as Tuskegee University).[1][5]

Two of Calloway's brothers also worked for the Tuskegee Institute. His older brother, James Nathan Calloway, was a lecturer in mathematics and agriculture, and worked as an agent and lobbyist for the Institute.[5] His younger brother Clinton J. Calloway was head of the Institute’s extension department,[6] working to establish schools for African American children in rural communities across the South.[7][8][9]

Calloway was appointed U.S. Special Commissioner in charge of The Exhibit of American Negroes at the United States pavilion at the Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) held in Paris in 1900.[10] He collaborated with Daniel Murray, the Assistant Librarian of Congress, and W. E. B. Du Bois, to create the sociological display; the goal was to demonstrate progress and commemorate the lives of African Americans at the turn of the century.[11]

The Thomas J. Calloway House, in Lanham, Maryland, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Thomas Calloway, Lawyer, and Administrator". African American Registry. 2026-02-21.
  2. ^ Smith, Shawn Michelle (2004). Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture. Duke University Press. p. 167. ISBN 0822333430.
  3. ^ Sinclair, Bruce (2004). Technology and the African-American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study. MIT Press. p. 119. ISBN 9780262195041. Thomas J. Calloway fisk university.
  4. ^ Frank Lincoln Mather, ed. (1915). Who's Who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent. Vol. 1. Chicago.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ a b c Washington, Booker T. (1974). Louis R. Harlan; Stuart B. Kaufman; Raymond W. Smock (eds.). Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3: 1889-95. University of Illinois Press.
  6. ^ "Rosenwald Schools". durhamcountylibrary.org. Durham County Library.
  7. ^ "Clinton J. Calloway presentation". Tuskegee University Archives. January 13, 2021.
  8. ^ Society of Architectural Historians (September 6, 2018). "Shiloh Rosenwald School". SAH ARCHIPEDIA.
  9. ^ The Negro Rural School and Its Relation to the Community. Tuskegee Institute Extension Department. 1915.
  10. ^ Sherwood, Marika (2012). Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora. New York: Routledge.
  11. ^ David Levering Lewis, "A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Americans at the Turn of the Twentieth Century", A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress. New York: Amistad, 2003. 24–49.
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