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14th president of Howard University; third president of University of Texas at Dallas: Dr. Heather Knight: 21st president, Pacific Union College: Bogart Leashore: 1969 dean of the Hunter College school of social work (1991–2003) [41] Inabel Burns Lindsay: 1920 founding dean of the Howard University School of Social Work Howard Hale Long: 1915
Meharry was a young white man who, in 1826, was aided after an accident by a family of freed slaves. Afterward, he promised to repay their help by doing "something for your race." Fifty years later, he and four brothers donated $15,000 to assist with establishment of the medical department at Central Tennessee College; that department later ...
Howard University is home to The Hilltop, the university's student newspaper. Founded in 1924 by Zora Neale Hurston, The Hilltop enjoys a long legacy at the university. Howard University is the publisher of The Journal of Negro Education, which began publication in 1932. The Howard University Bison Yearbook is created, edited and published ...
Jack E. White (July 24, 1921 – July 2, 1988) was an American physician and cancer surgeon. He was the first black physician to train in surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. White later directed the cancer center at Howard University College of Medicine where he also served as a full
A graduate of Langston University and the University of Chicago, he had become involved in the Black Power movement while teaching at Howard University. After being fired as chair of the Black Studies program at San Francisco State, in November 1969 Hare and Robert Chrisman co-founded the journal, The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies ...
Moor then cycled through the Dredd Scott decision (“Black people in the United States have no rights which the white man is bound to respect.”), the Compromise of 1877 (“White folks in 1877 ...
Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) [1] was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants.
Martin Tabert (1899 – February 2, 1922) was an American forced laborer. The circumstances of Tabert's death – being a white man beaten to death by an overseer – caused a public reaction that resulted eventually in the end of Florida’s longstanding convict leasing system.