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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 next went to study history in Ghana on a Fulbright Fellowship. [3] Returning to the US, she enrolled at Duke University , where she earned an MA (1996) and PhD (2001) in US history, as well as a certificate in women's studies. [ 4 ]
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 ...
Howard University is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States.It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
[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]
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle (born Ethel Hedgeman, sometimes spelled Hedgemon; February 10, 1887 – November 28, 1950) was a founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (ΑΚΑ) at Howard University in 1908. It was the first sorority founded by African-American college women. Lyle is often referred to as the "Guiding Light" for the organization.
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.
Julia Caldwell Frazier (October 10, 1863 – March 26, 1929) was an American educator. One of the first women to graduate from Howard University, she taught at the Dallas Colored High School (later relocated and renamed as Booker T. Washington High School) from 1892 to 1924, and was the school's interim principal for the 1919–1920 school year.