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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
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]
Over the objections of the faculty and student body, in 1976 STLCC administration changed the names of the individual campuses to the format St. Louis Community College–Campus Name. [4] In August 2007, STLCC opened a fourth campus, St. Louis Community College–Wildwood in Wildwood. [5]
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.
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.
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]
William Greenleaf Eliot (August 5, 1811 [1] – January 23, 1887 [2]) was an American educator, Unitarian minister, and civic leader in Missouri.He is most notable for founding Washington University in St. Louis, and also contributed to the founding of numerous other civic institutions, such as the Saint Louis Art Museum, public school system, and charitable institutions.
The school became a junior college in 1921, then a four-year college in 1923 and was renamed Maryville College of the Sacred Heart. In the late 1950s, the school purchased 290 acres (117.4 ha) of land adjacent to Interstate 64 , which was then St. Louis' main east–west thoroughfare.