This autograph book and scrapbook chronicles the active intellectual life of Dillard University during the presidency of Albert W. Dent. Visitors who signed the book included Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and Martin Luther King Jr. Shown here are some of the visitors for 1958 and 1959, which include Duke Ellington, Jackie Robinson, and NFL running back legend Jim Brown.