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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.
Pages in category "Wiley University alumni" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. David Abner Jr. B.
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Based on a true story, the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at Wiley College, a historically black college related to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now The United Methodist Church), to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a fear for African Americans.
For articles related to Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, USA. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. A. Wiley Wildcats (3 C ...
In 2023, W. Anthony Neal, then-senior vice president of institutional advancement at Wiley University in Texas, said he talked with Gerami at least seven times about a donation of $1 million to $2 ...
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.
As a debate coach at the historically black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, Tolson led a team that pioneered interracial college debates against white colleges in the segregated South. [2] This work was depicted in the 2007 biopic The Great Debaters, produced by Oprah Winfrey, starring and directed by Denzel Washington as Tolson. [2] [3]