Robert Page Sims

Robert Page Sims (1872–1944) was an early African American academic, civil rights leader, scientist, and college president who held positions at Virginia University of Lynchburg and Bluefield State College.

Sims graduated from Storer College, a Freewill Baptist school, in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1893[1] and then Hillsdale College, a Free Will Baptist school in Michigan, in 1897.

Du Bois regarding civil rights issues for African Americans[2] and attended the Pan-African Congress in Europe in 1921.

Sims stepped down as president of Bluefield in 1936 but continued to stay involved with the school.

[3] He was buried at the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Bolivar, West Virginia, near Harpers Ferry.

Storer College photo from 1893 featuring M. DeHonney, Robert P. Sims, Henry Carter, W. P. Crump, Stella James Sims, J. C. Gilmer