http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f102-subject%3DAfrican%20American%20businesspeople. Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f102-subject=African American businesspeople. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5277.xml David Rankin Perkins (1868-1937) was an African American teacher and businessman in Wilmot, Ashley County, Arkansas. A graduate of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (Alcorn State University) in Mississippi, Perkins was the co-owner of Douglass and Perkins Dry Goods and Groceries with H. D. Douglass. His wife, Mattie Martin Perkins (1872-1964) was also a graduate of Alcorn and a teacher. Her father, John Adams Martin, was a college professor and the president of Alcorn State University in Mississippi from 1911-1915. The collection consists correspondence exchanged by David Perkins and Mattie Martin while they were courting in the 1890s and a 1919 yearbook for the Tuskgegee Institute. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5277.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT