Thomas J. Calloway

Thomas J. Calloway c. 1900
Exhibit of the American Negroes at the Paris exposition, 1900, organised by 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 went on to attend law school at Howard University, earning a law degree in 1894.[4] While studying law at Howard University, he held a government position as a clerk in the special correspondence division of the War Department.[1]

Calloway taught English in an Evansville, Indiana high school, and was principal of the Helena (Arkansas) Normal School, president of the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi, and assistant principal to Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute.[1] Calloway’s younger brother Clinton J. Calloway was head of the Institute’s extension department[5] which helped establish schools for African Americans in rural communities.[6][7][8]

Calloway was appointed as the US Special Commissioner in charge of The Exhibit of American Negroes at the United States pavilion at the Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1900.[4]

His home, the Thomas J. Calloway House, 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. ^ a b Sherwood, Marika (2012). Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora. New York: Routledge.
  5. ^ "The Funders - Biographies - The North Carolina Collection - Durham County Library". durhamcountylibrary.org.
  6. ^ "Clinton J. Calloway presentation final – Tuskegee University Archives".
  7. ^ "Shiloh Rosenwald School". SAH ARCHIPEDIA. September 6, 2018.
  8. ^ The Negro Rural School and Its Relation to the Community. 1915.
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