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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 .
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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 ...
Two suspicious fires destroyed its main building in 1905. Financial problems led to its closure in 1929; combined with other institutions to form LeMoyne–Owen College. Roosevelt Junior College: West Palm Beach: Florida: 1958 1965 Public Regionally accredited. One of eleven black junior colleges founded in Florida after the Brown v.
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 ...
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