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St. Louis Community College (STLCC) is a public community college in St. Louis, Missouri. It is supported by the Junior College District of St. Louis City – St. Louis County, servicing 718 square miles.
Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology was a college within Saint Louis University. It formed from the pre-existing Parks Air College, founded by Oliver Parks in 1927. Its successor is the Oliver L. Parks Department of Aviation Science within the SLU School of Science and Engineering at Saint Louis University.
1959 – St. Louis sit-in during the Civil Rights Movement. [59] 1960 Population: 750,026. [41] Sister city relationship established with Stuttgart, Germany. [60] The National Football League's Chicago Cardinals relocate to St. Louis. They will remain through 1987. 1962 – St. Louis Community College established. 1963
His son, also named John Fitzgerald Lee (1848–1926), served as president of the St. Louis Bar Association, president of the David Rankin School of Mechanical Trades, and board member of the St. Louis Public Library. A dormitory on Washington University is named after this younger John F. Lee. [4]
His father, also John Fitzgerald Lee, was a former Judge Advocate General of the United States Army [3] and the first Judge Advocate General since the position had been vacant since 1802. [4] Lee attended Georgetown University and the University of Virginia. [5] Starting in 1870, he practiced law in St. Louis at the law firm of A. and J.F. Lee [5]
A Catholic academy, St. Louis Academy (later Saint Louis University), was established in 1818 as the first college west of the Mississippi River. [3] According to William Barnaby Faherty, Rev. Peter Verhaegen , SJ., was a key leader in building Catholicism in the West from his arrival 1823 to his death in 1853.
In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [267]
In 1926, Douglass University, a historically black university was founded by B. F. Bowles in St. Louis, and at the time no other college in St. Louis County admitted black students. [36] In the first half of the 20th century, St. Louis was a destination in the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South seeking better opportunities.