February is Black History Month: Home

The Great Migration and the power of a single decision: Isabel Wilkerson

Can Art amend History?Titus Kaphar

The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black Women: A first step toward change: T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison

Color Blind or Color Brave? Mellody Hobson

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From The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

1799: John Chavis, a Presbyterian minister and teacher, is the first black person on record to attend an American college or university. There is no record of his receiving a degree from what is now Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

1833: Oberlin College in Ohio is founded. From its founding the college is open to blacks and women and has a long history of dedication to African-American higher education.

1844: Oberlin College graduates its first black student, George B. Vashon, who became one of the founding professors at Howard University.

1850: Lucy Ann Stanton, a black woman, receives a certificate in literature from Oberlin College. She is a graduate of the college but did not receive a bachelor’s degree.

1850: Harvard Medical School accepts its first three black students, one of whom was Martin Delany. But Harvard later rescinds the invitations due to pressure from white students.

1867: Howard University is founded in Washington, D.C.

1867: Morehouse College (originally known as Augusta Institute) in Atlanta, Georgia, and Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, North Carolina, are founded.

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