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From 1870 to 1930, Benedict College was led by a succession of seven northern white Baptist ministers, all college-educated. On April 10, 1930, the Reverend John J. Starks, who earned his bachelor's degree from the college in 1891, became the first African-American president of the college. Five African-American presidents have succeeded him.
She was a co-founder, benefactor, and namesake of Benedict College, an historically black college, in South Carolina. Bathsheba Adams Barber was born in Bellingham, Massachusetts in 1809. In 1830, she married Stephen Benedict, a banker, mill owner, Baptist church deacon, and early abolitionist from Pawtucket. Her husband died in a fire in 1868.
Known as "Alabama Lutheran Academy and Junior College" until 1981; It was the only historically black college among the ten colleges and universities in the Concordia University System. The college ceased operations at the completion of the Spring 2018 semester, citing years of financial distress and declining enrollment.
[14] [15] [16] HBCUs currently produce nearly 20% of all African American college graduates and 25% of African American STEM graduates. [17] Among the graduates of HBCUs are civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and former United States Vice President Kamala Harris.
Benedict was just 1-9 five years ago but went on a historic run last season, going 10-0 in the regular season. The Tigers won the SIAC championship and made the playoffs for the first time.
She was a professor of English at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. She was an organizer of the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English. [4] She organized and produced the Black History Teleconference. [5] She was a member of the United Methodist Church. [2] She married Clifton E. Davis. Kenneth Renay Davis Sr ...
David Holmes Swinton is an economist and president emeritus of Benedict College. [1] He was awarded the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award by the National Economic Association in 2005, and in 2007, he was inducted into the South Carolina Black Hall of Fame. [2]
A historically Black college in central Illinois named after Abraham Lincoln and founded the year the former president was assassinated will close this week, months after a cyberattack that ...