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Harrison was born on July 2, 1933, in Pembroke, Kentucky. He attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from William Jewell College and a Master of Science degree in public administration from Shippensburg State College. [5]
After graduating from high school, Anna Mac attended Kentucky State College (now KSU). While at Kentucky State, Clarke was a very active student, participating in sports, Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and the school's newspaper, The Kentucky Thorobred. Clarke graduated from Kentucky State College in 1941, earning a bachelor's degree in both ...
The Pursuit of Excellence: Kentucky State University, 1886–2020 (2021) online; Hardin, John A. "Green Pinckney Russell of Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons." Journal of Black Studies 25.5 (1995): 610–621. excerpt, now renamed as Kentucky State University at Frankfort
The soldiers are classified by the state where they were enrolled; Northern states often sent agents to enroll formerly enslaved from the South. Many soldiers from Delaware, D.C., Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia were formerly enslaved as well. Most of the troops credited to West Virginia, however, were not actually from that state. [28]
Shelton State Community College: Tuscaloosa: Alabama: 1952 Public Founded as "J.P. Shelton Trade School" Yes Simmons College: Louisville: Kentucky: 1869 Private [l] Founded as Kentucky Normal Technological Institute Yes South Carolina State University: Orangeburg: South Carolina: 1896 Public
Although his home state of Kentucky did not secede from the Union, Preston would serve the South. In November 1861, the provisional government for Kentucky appointed he, Henry C. Burnett and William E. Simms as commissioners to treat with the Confederates States government for the admission of Kentucky into the Confederacy. [1]
After the war (at the invitation of Robert E. Lee), he became a professor at Washington College in Virginia. [3] In 1880, he became president of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, but resigned four years later to become the first president of the new Tulane University in 1884. [3]
Unlike the army, the U.S. Navy had never prohibited black men from serving, though regulations in place since 1840 had required them to be limited to not more than 5% of all enlisted sailors. Thus at the start of the war, the Union Navy differed from the Army in that it allowed black men to enlist and was racially integrated. [33]