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Jun 30, 2024 · Howard University, historically Black university founded in 1867 in Washington, D.C., and named for General Oliver Otis Howard, head of the post-Civil War Freedmen’s Bureau, who influenced Congress to appropriate funds for the school.
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6 days ago · Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), institutions of higher education in the United States founded prior to 1964 for African American students. The term was created by the Higher Education Act of 1965, which expanded federal funding for colleges and universities.
Jun 28, 2024 · Zora Neale Hurston attended Howard University from 1921 to 1924 before winning a scholarship to Barnard College to study anthropology under Franz Boas. After graduating from Barnard, she pursued graduate studies in anthropology at Columbia University.
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- Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891. She claimed to have been born in 1901 in order to receive a free high-school education even though...
- Zora Neale Hurston grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated all-Black town in the United States.
- Zora Neale Hurston’s ethnographic research made her a pioneer writer of “folk fiction” about African Americans in the South. She was a prominent wr...
3 days ago · The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference ( MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States.
2 days ago · Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist, and pilot. He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world.
21 hours ago · Kamala Harris earned a B.A. in political science and economics from Howard University in 1986 and a law degree from Hastings College in 1989.
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4 days ago · In 1844, Oberlin Collegiate Institute graduated its first black student, George Boyer Vashon, who later became one of the founding professors of Howard University and the first black lawyer admitted to the Bar in New York State.
