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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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She was chancellor of Sowela Technical Community College from 2007 to 2012. In December 2011, she became chancellor of Baton Rouge Community College. [2] On September 1, 2015, she became the 12th president of LeMoyne-Owen College, succeeding Johnnie B. Watson. [1] [2] She is the first woman and second alumnus to serve in the role. [1]
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 ...
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]
Notable sites in South Memphis include The firehouse known as The Black Arts Alliance, Stax Museum, most famously Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion, LeMoyne-Owen College, Thomas B. Davis YMCA, Crystal Palace Skating Rink, T.O. Fuller State Park, Southgate Shopping Center, Southland Mall and the historic cemeteries Zion, Rose Hill, Mt Carmel, New Park, [2] and Elmwood.
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.