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This list of notable Howard University people (alumni sometimes known as Bison), includes faculty, staff, graduates, honorary graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of the American Howard University, a private, coeducational, nonsectarian historically black university, [1] located in Washington, D.C. [2]
She went to Howard University, joining the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, [2] and graduating in 1920. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] She earned a master's degree in education from Harvard University in 1925. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Although African American women such as Alberta Virginia Scott had previously graduated from Radcliffe College , she may have been the first to earn ...
Margaret Flagg Holmes (September 6, 1886 – January 29, 1976) was one of the sixteen founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, at Howard University in Washington, DC. It was the first sorority founded by African-American women. She went on to earn a Master's in Philosophy at Columbia University in New York.
"I went to Howard University. She's a Howard alumna. I am the president of the Black Women in Pre-Law Society. I mean, she is the Black woman in law."
Intent on making her mark in a big city" she went to New York after high school but the only work she found was as a maid. [3] After three years in New York, she moved to Washington, D.C., found work in government typing pools and attended teachers' college part-time. At age 22, she transferred to Howard University and studied business. She ...
[1] [2] Ray graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872. She was also the first female admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, and the first woman admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. [3] Her admission was used as a precedent by women in other states who sought admission to the bar. [4]
For women who were chided for their choices to attend historically Black colleges and universities, and especially for those who chose Howard University.
Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, D.C., is referred to as the "Mecca." Since 1867, it has been a gathering place for Black people in the U.S. and from all over the world.