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June 16, 2004. Wilberforce University is a private historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. Affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), it was the first college to be owned and operated by African Americans. Central State University, also in Wilberforce, Ohio, began as a department of Wilberforce University.
Wilberforce is located in central Greene County and is bordered to the southwest by the city of Xenia, the county seat. Wilberforce is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. U.S. Route 42 passes through the community, leading southwest 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the center of Xenia and northeast 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to Cedarville.
Central State University (CSU) is a public, historically black land-grant university in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Established by the state legislature in 1887 as a two-year program for teacher and industrial training, it was originally located with Wilberforce University, a ...
William Sanders Scarborough (February 16, 1852 – September 9, 1926) is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Born into slavery, Scarborough served as president of Wilberforce University between 1908 and 1920. He wrote a popular university textbook on Classical Greek that was widely used in the 19th century.
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 ...
Wilberforce University: Wilberforce: Ohio: 1856 Private [c] Named for William Wilberforce. Oldest HBCU to retain its original name, and the first college to be owned and operated by African Americans. Yes Wiley University: Marshall: Texas: 1873 Private [h] Named for Isaac William Wiley; was Wiley College 1929–2023 Yes Winston-Salem State ...
Doctoral/higher research university 18,620 1809 Miami-Jacobs Career College: Dayton Private for-profit 1,200 1998 Mount St. Joseph University: Cincinnati: Private not-for profit Master's university 2,300 1920 Mount Vernon Nazarene University: Mount Vernon: Private not-for profit Master's university 2,317 1968 Muskingum University: New Concord
—Du Bois, "Strivings of the Negro People", 1897 In the summer of 1894, Du Bois received several job offers, including from Tuskegee Institute ; he accepted a teaching job at Wilberforce University in Ohio. At Wilberforce, Du Bois was strongly influenced by Alexander Crummell, who believed that ideas and morals are necessary tools to effect social change. While at Wilberforce, Du Bois married ...