Category : Education

A Legacy of African American Education in the Southern United States The Jeanes Supervisors, also known as Jeanes Teachers or Supervising Industrial Teachers, were a...

Fisk University is a historically black university located in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. It was founded in 1866 and named after General Clinton...

Morehouse College is one of ten historically Black colleges and universities in Georgia. Located a few miles from downtown Atlanta in the historic West End...

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) was founded on April 25, 1944, by Frederick Patterson, President of the Tuskegee Institute, and Mary McLeod Bethune, an...

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964...

Fannie C. Williams was born March 23, 1882, in Biloxi, Mississippi. She moved to New Orleans to attend high school and finished both the College...

The child of former slaves, Virginia Estelle Randolph (June 8, 1874–March 16, 1958) completed her education at the age of sixteen and took her first...

Hallie Brown’s parents were former slaves who married about 1840. Her father, who bought his freedom and that of family members, was the son of...

Wilberforce University was established near Xenia, Ohio in 1856 as a joint venture between the Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Named...