"Sherman L. Green" Four Freedom Building

Sherman L. Green "Four Freedom Building

This photograph really perked my interest. There are questions that need answers:

Where is the building located?

Who was Sherman L. Green?

Why was it named Four Freedom Building?

Why was this photograph in the Berry collection?

I went to ancestry to see if I could find any records. I found a Sherman L. Green in the 1910 United States Federal Census.  Sherman was married to a woman named Pinky V. Green. Sherman was born in Mississippi abt 1882. In 1910 he was living in Little Rock Ward 1, Pulaski, Arkansas.  He was the President at  Shorter College. Shorter was founded in 1886, a private, faith-based, two-year liberal arts college located in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The college was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Shorter College is one of the nation's 110 Historically Black Colleges and University and the only private, two-year HBCU in the nation.

In the 1940 United States Census, he was 55 years old and was living in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas. His occupation listed him as a Preacher Bishop and his the highest grade completed was the 3rd year of college. He was a Bishop of the African Methodist Churches. He lived at 900 Ringo Street in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Shorter College graduates, 1912.
Archives State Archives

While researching, I came across a JET magazine "June 11, 1964" Fisk University graduate Sherman L. Green. III, the grandson of AME Bishop Sherman L. Green, was awarded, three major fellowships. With grants for Danforth, Woodrow Wilson, and Fulbright Fellowships. He will use the Fulbright studies, to study comparative literature in France, and then the others.  

Group photograph of graduates of Shorter College posed in front of a brick building on the campus in North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas in 1912. Graduates include front row (second from left) Carson D. Henry, Rosston, Nevada County, Arkansas; Amoline C. Steward, Malvern, Hot Spring County; Claudius V. Stewart, Malvern, Hot Spring County; Trudie E. Saunders, Argenta (North Little Rock), Pulaski County; Roxie A. Walker, Pine Bluff, Jefferson County; Jessie D. Berry, Clarendon, Monroe County; Sherman L. Green, Pine Bluff, Jefferson County; back row Rev. A.H. Hill (sixth from left) and Rev. J.N. Campbell (eighth from left).

Sources:

Jet Magazine 1964

Photograph: http://www.worldcat.org/title/shorter-college-graduates-1912/oclc/47218302

Building Photograph: Lillian Bates

Uncle Martin Was A Undertaker

Martin Berry
Photo Courtesy of: Lillian Bates

Martin Berry was born in circa 1870. According to the 1930 United States Federal Census. He was born in Mississippi. In 1930 he was living in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. He owned his own home and the home valued at three thousand and five hundred dollars. He was married to Almeda Berry. Martin and his wife had a grandson by the name of Willie living in the household with them. Martin and his brothers were carpenters.

In the 1910 United States Census, he and wife were the parents of Thomas, Clarence, Alfred Berry.  A little girl named Bertha Brown was living in the house. Martin was able to read and write.

On the back of the photograph, it is written that he was a professional undertaker. (Uncle Martin, a mortician), Edward John Berry's brother.