Joseph Carter Corbin: Educator Extraordinaire and Founder...
Finney, Gladys Turner
Having operated now for more than 140 years, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was founded in 1875 as Branch Normal College by Joseph Carter Corbin, a native of Ohio and the son of former slaves. Corbin was the first African American superintendent of public education in Arkansas and literally built the school from the ground up"--