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  2. Wiley University - Wikipedia

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    Wiley University (formerly Wiley College) is a private historically black college in Marshall, Texas. Founded in 1873 by the Methodist Episcopal Church 's Bishop Isaac Wiley and certified in 1882 by the Freedman's Aid Society , it is one of the oldest predominantly black colleges west of the Mississippi River .

  3. Henrietta Bell Wells - Wikipedia

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    The 1930 Wiley College debate team. Wells is in the center of the front row. Henrietta Bell Wells (October 11, 1912 – February 27, 2008) was the first female member of the debate team at historically black Wiley College in Texas. She was born Henrietta Pauline Bell on the banks of Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas to a West Indian single mother.

  4. Marshall, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The historically black Bishop College was founded in 1881, and Wiley College was certified by the Freedman's Aid Society in 1882. Marshall's "Railroad Era" began in the early 1870s. Harrison County citizens voted to offer a $300,000 bond subsidy, [ 20 ] and the City of Marshall offered to donate land north of the downtown to the Texas and ...

  5. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Known as "Alabama Lutheran Academy and Junior College" until 1981; It was the only historically black college among the ten colleges and universities in the Concordia University System. The college ceased operations at the completion of the Spring 2018 semester, citing years of financial distress and declining enrollment. Daniel Payne College

  6. Human population planning - Wikipedia

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    The practice, traditionally referred to as population control, had historically been implemented mainly with the goal of increasing population growth, though from the 1950s to the 1980s, concerns about overpopulation and its effects on poverty, the environment and political stability led to efforts to reduce population growth rates in many ...

  7. Competitive debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A 1987 study by Brenda Logue found that only 11.1% of participants in CEDA tournaments were minorities, despite 17% of college students being non-white. [66] Later studies have found similar rates, with Pamela Stepp noting that the "community has not kept up with the changing college population" in 1997. [65]

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag. The moment reminds his father of Patrick’s graduation from college, and he takes a picture of his son with his cell phone.

  9. Willis J. King - Wikipedia

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    King attended Wiley College, Boston University School of Theology, and Harvard University, and received his Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University.He was selected as the black students' representative at the World's Student and Christian Federation in Peking, China, and as a Fellow of the Julius Rosenwald Fund for Research at Oxford University.