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Cole was the second African-American woman physician in the United States and the first black woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. James B. Dudley. ca. 1870. Graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth around 1875 (now Cheyney University). For college Dudley attended Shaw College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
cheyney.edu. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public historically black university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, [ 5 ] it is the oldest of all historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. It is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and ...
Robert Woodson. Categories: Alumni by university or college in Pennsylvania. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Alumni by historically black university or college in the United States. Hidden category: Automatic category TOC generates no TOC.
faculty 1913-1951; fifth and final principal, first president of Cheyney. William "Billy" Joe. former NFL and AFL player; College Football Hall of Fame coach. Mary Jane Patterson. faculty 1862-1869; first African American woman to receive a bachelor's degree when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862; taught at ICY in Philadelphia for ...
First president of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Leslie Pinckney Hill (14 May 1880 – 15 February 1960) was an American educator, writer, and community leader. From 1913 to 1951, he served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and oversaw the institution's move to Cheyney, Pennsylvania , and its establishment as ...
Octavius Catto. Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. He became principal of male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had also been educated. Born free in Charleston, South Carolina, in a prominent mixed-race family, he moved north ...
1991 [ 1 ] The Institute for Colored Youth was founded in 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It became the first college for African-Americans in the United States, although there were schools that admitted African Americans preceding it. At the time, public policy and certain statutory provisions prohibited the education of ...
August 18, 1882. Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. Died. November 30, 1947 (age 65) Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. Occupation. Educator. Evangeline Rachel Hall (August 18, 1882 – November 30, 1947) was an American educator. She was head of teacher training at Cheyney State Teachers College, where she taught for 42 years, from 1905 to 1947.