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Richard Humphreys (February 13, 1750 – 1832) [1] was an American silversmith and philanthropist who founded a school for African Americans in Philadelphia. Originally called the African Institute, it was renamed the Institute for Colored Youth and eventually became Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest historically black university in the United States.
The Institute for Colored Youth was founded in 1837 in ... Pennsylvania its name was changed to Cheyney University. ... News of the Cincinnati riots of 1829 ...
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public historically black university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837 as the ... African-Americans in Cincinnati, ...
University of Pennsylvania ( MSW ) Robert Leon Woodson Sr. [ 1 ] (born April 8, 1937) is an American civil rights activist, community development leader, author, and founder and president of the Woodson Center, a non-profit research and demonstration organization that supports neighborhood-based initiatives to revitalize low-income communities.
It was founded at Howard University in 1908. [1] ... Cincinnati: Ohio Active Pi: April 12, 1921 ... Cheyney University of Pennsylvania: Cheyney:
Delta Sigma Theta is an international historically Black sorority.It was founded at Howard University in 1913. The sorority has more than 1,000 collegiate and alumnae chapters located in the United States, Canada, England, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands, Liberia, Bermuda, Jamaica, The Bahamas, South Korea and Nigeria.
I’m like, ‘OK, Dawn is rocking Cheyney University!’” Cheyney, the nation’s oldest HBCU, is located just over 30 miles west of Staley’s hometown of Philadelphia.
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.