My Grandfather’s HBCU Legacy Lives on Through My NAACP Leadership

Our Journey from Jamaica to Morgan State to Harvard to Bowie State

Angela Rose Myers
ZORA
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6 min readFeb 12, 2021

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Samuel L. Myers Sr. Photos courtesy of the author.

One of Bowie State University’s former presidents, Samuel L. Myers Sr., died at the age of 101 this past January. He is my grandfather and this story is his legacy.

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Angela Rose Myers
ZORA
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Angela Rose Myers is the former President of the Minneapolis NAACP. Her goals are to create bridges between Black organizing and public policy