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1727: Ursuline Academy is the oldest Catholic school and the oldest school for women in the United States. It now provides primary and secondary education for girls. 1742: Bethlehem Female Seminary was founded in Germantown and later moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It received its collegiate charter in 1863.
African Americans. This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community. [1][2] Most HBCU's are located in the Southern United States, where state laws generally ...
The First African Baptist Church was the first African-American church west of the Mississippi River. [21] It had its beginnings in 1817 when John Mason Peck and the former enslaved John Berry Meachum began holding church services for African Americans in St. Louis. [22] Meachum founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827.
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones (July 15, 1942 – October 13, 2005) was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963, and in 1965 became the university's first black graduate. She was made famous when George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, attempted to block her and James Hood from enrolling at the all-white ...
Autherine Juanita Lucy (October 5, 1929 – March 2, 2022) was an American activist who was the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, in 1956. [1] Her expulsion from the institution later that year led to the university's President Oliver Carmichael 's resignation. [2][3] Years later, the University admitted her as ...
Louisa Ayres. Mary Terrell (born Mary Church; September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. [1] She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street School (now known as Paul Laurence Dunbar High School)—the first African ...
e. Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving African Americans. [1] Most of these institutions were founded during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War and are concentrated ...
Mary McLeod Bethune. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955 [1]) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided for a ...