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| 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.
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| 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
Building Photograph: Lillian Bates
