{"id":776,"date":"2016-12-02T15:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T22:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=776"},"modified":"2017-01-25T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:34:29","slug":"beverly-john-william-1859-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"BEVERLY, JOHN WILLIAM, 1859-1924"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College professor and administrator. Born&#8211; Hale County, August\u00a01859. Parents&#8211; Aaron and Susan (Wayne) Beverly. Married&#8211;Mattie E. Dale. Children&#8211; Six. Education&#8211; Lincoln Normal School, B.S., 1882; Brown University, Ph.D., 1894. Principal of Tullibody Academy at Greensboro, 1882-1884. Taught at Lincoln Normal School, 1887-90; became its assistant principal in 1894; continued to serve the school after it moved to Montgomery and became the Alabama Normal School for Colored Students in 1888. In 1915, Beverly became\u00a0the school&#8217;s first \u00a0first Black president; dean of Alabama State Normal School, 1920-1922; instructor of English and history at Prairie View College in Texas until his death in 1924. His book <em>History of Alabama for Use in Schools&#8230; <\/em>is the first history of Alabama written by an African American author. Honors; Selma University, honorary LL.D. Died December 16, 1924.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in Alabama and Mrs. Bertha P. Williams, Alabama State University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guide to the English Oration for Use in Schools &#8230; Montgomery, Ala.; Author, 1902.<\/p>\n<p>History of Alabama, for Use in Schools and for General Reading. Montgomery, Ala.; Author, 1901.<\/p>\n<p>Practical Ethics for Children.<\/p>\n<p>Some Everyday Mistakes in the English Language Corrected. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1922.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: College professor and administrator. Born&#8211; Hale County, August\u00a01859. Parents&#8211; Aaron and Susan (Wayne) Beverly. Married&#8211;Mattie E. Dale. Children&#8211; Six. Education&#8211; Lincoln Normal School, B.S., 1882; Brown University, Ph.D., 1894. Principal of Tullibody Academy at Greensboro, 1882-1884. Taught at Lincoln Normal School, 1887-90; became its assistant principal in 1894; continued to serve the school after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6308,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}