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LeMoyne–Owen College (LOC or "LeMoyne-Owen") is a private historically black college affiliated with the United Church of Christ and located in Memphis, Tennessee. It resulted from the 1968 merger of historically black colleges and other schools established by northern Protestant missions during and after the American Civil War .
Her parents were both educators who had attended LeMoyne College (now LeMoyne-Owen College). [5] Her father, Ernest Buford Abron, had sustained an injury playing football in college, and was thus unable to serve during World War II. He worked as a Pullman porter and later was a teacher. Abron's mother, Bernice Wise Abron, was a typist from ...
She was chancellor of Sowela Technical Community College from 2007 to 2012. In December 2011, she became chancellor of Baton Rouge Community College. [2] On September 1, 2015, she became the 12th president of LeMoyne-Owen College, succeeding Johnnie B. Watson. [1] [2] She is the first woman and second alumnus to serve in the role. [1]
Rochelle Stevens (born September 8, 1966) is a former 1996 Olympic gold medalist for the United States in the women's 4x400-meter relay. She was also part of the team that won the silver medal in the same event and 6th in the world at 400 meters at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
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The eldest sister, Ernestine, attended LeMoyne–Owen College, and became involved with social justice whilst still a junior at high school. [4] She was first arrested in 1960, when she joined friends from college to visit white-only libraries. [1] [5] For the following six years, the Lee sisters became more involved with the civil rights ...
On August 26, 2019, Johnson-Dean began an 18-month stint as the interim president of LeMoyne–Owen College, succeeding Andrea Lewis Miller. [5] [1] She stepped down in January 2021 and was succeeded by Vernell Bennett-Fairs. [1] She was married to Matthew who died in March 2012. [2] Johnson-Dean is married to Willie Dean and has six children. [1]
Garraway's 2020 gift to LeMoyne-Owen college was inspired by the movie and book, Hidden Figures, which describes the true story of three African-American female mathematicians working at NASA as human computers, who played a critical role in the 1960s U.S. space efforts. "Seeing the movie and reading the book made me think that she (Mrs. Turner ...