Anna E. Hall was born near Bainbridge, Georgia on March 1st, 1870. She lived a religiously oriented childhood with her mother, a seamstress, and expressed the desire to serve as a missionary while a student at Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia, where she completed the normal course on May 12, 1892. With the generosity of influential people who were made aware of her desire to be a missionary, she was able to enter the New England Deaconess Training School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899 and graduated May 22, 1901 as the first African American to attend the school. Her missionary work was realized in December of 1906, when she travelled to Monrovia, Liberia to teach the Kroo (Kru) people. Her second year she was asked to go to the southern part of the Republic, Garraway, where she became the successor to the Director of the Julia A. Stewart Memorial Girls Home and School, Garraway Mission. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu
May 16, 2019

Anna E. Hall Collection

Anna E. Hall was born near Bainbridge, Georgia on March 1st, 1870. She lived a religiously oriented childhood with her mother, a seamstress, and expressed the desire to serve as a missionary while a student at Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia, where she completed the normal course on May 12, 1892. With the generosity of influential people who were made aware of her desire to be a missionary, she was able to enter the New England Deaconess Training School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899 and graduated May 22, 1901 as the first African American to attend the school. Her missionary work was realized in December of 1906, when she travelled to Monrovia, Liberia to teach the Kroo (Kru) people. Her second year she was asked to go to the southern part of the Republic, Garraway, where she became the successor to the Director of the Julia A. Stewart Memorial Girls Home and School, Garraway Mission.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu
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Anna E. Hall, circa 1960 1955/1965 Anna E. Hall standing outside with four men. Written on verso: Rev. Short, GA; Rev. Fields, LA: Rev. Meerans, D.C; Miss Hall; Jackson, LA. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1960 1955/1965 Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified woman. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1960 1955/1965 Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified woman. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, 1954 1954 Anna E. Hall greeted by three men. Written on verso: 1954 Dedication of Anna E. Hall Dorm Gammon Theol. Seminary; Left to Right: 1. Bishop Moore 2. Dr. Harry Richardson 3. Miss Anna E. Hall 4. Bishop Bowen. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Scrapbook 1, circa 1955 1950/1960 This scrapbook features photographs and memorabilia about Anna E. Hall created for her by Clark College students. Some of the items included are newspaper clippings, writings, and photographs of Anna E. Hall with various groups of students and adults. Some of the identified people in the photographs include: Dr. Stella Brewer Brookes, Dr. James P. Brawley, Dr. James R. Porter, Bishop Arthur E. Moore, Dr. Harry V. Richardson, Bishop J.W.E. Bowen, Susie Cunningham, Eva Samuel Martin, Roberta Parks, S.J. Saxon, Eva B. Parks, J.N. Shopshire, and 1892 Clark University graduates Lillie Lovelace, Julia Starks, and Constance Peeler. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta Anna E. Hall Collection
Scrapbook 2, circa 1955 1950/1960 This scrapbook features photographs and memorabilia about Anna E. Hall created for her by Clark College students. Some of the items included are newspaper clippings, writings, newsletters, and photographs of Anna E. Hall, Agnes McAllister, and groups of students and teachers from the Garraway mission in Liberia. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1955 1950/1959 Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified woman and young man. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, 1948 1948 Anna E. Hall standing on steps with unidentified woman. Written on verso: Methodist conference Boston, MA April 1948. Anna Hall, Warner right (?). African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1950 1945/1955 Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified minister and woman (possibly Warner). African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1950 1945/1955 Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified priest. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1950 1945/1955 Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified nurses. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1950 1945/1955 Anna E. Hall standing on steps. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1950 1945/1955 Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified priest. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, 1940 1935/1945 Anna E. Hall standing outside with a woman in winter. Written on verso: Miss Anna E. Hall, Mrs. Joseph J. Dennis (Sammye). African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1940 1935/1945 Portrait of Anna E. Hall. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, 1940 1935/1945 Anna E. Hall standing outside with a woman in winter. Written on verso: 1st house (Miss Hall); Left to Right: 1. Miss Anna E. Hall 2. Mrs. Joseph J. Dennis (Sammye) ca. 1940. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1930 1925/1935 Passport portrait of Anna E. Hall. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Group on a Porch, circa 1925 1920/1929 Two unidentified men and three unidentified women on a house porch. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1900 1895/1905 Portrait of Anna E. Hall. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection