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Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public historically black university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, [ 5 ] it is the oldest of all historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. It is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the Thurgood ...
Cole was the second African-American woman physician in the United States and the first black woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. James B. Dudley. ca. 1870. Graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth around 1875 (now Cheyney University). For college Dudley attended Shaw College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
faculty 1913-1951; fifth and final principal, first president of Cheyney. William "Billy" Joe. former NFL and AFL player; College Football Hall of Fame coach. Mary Jane Patterson. faculty 1862-1869; first African American woman to receive a bachelor's degree when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862; taught at ICY in Philadelphia for ...
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.
First president of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Leslie Pinckney Hill (14 May 1880 – 15 February 1960) was an American educator, writer, and community leader. From 1913 to 1951, he served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and oversaw the institution's move to Cheyney, Pennsylvania , and its establishment as ...
Robert Woodson. Categories: Alumni by university or college in Pennsylvania. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Alumni by historically black university or college in the United States. Hidden category: Automatic category TOC generates no TOC.
Lincoln University (LU) is a public state-related historically black university (HBCU) near Oxford, Pennsylvania. Founded as the private Ashmun Institute in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972 and is the second HBCU in the state, after Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. [5] Lincoln is also recognized as the first college-degree ...
1991 [ 1 ] The Institute for Colored Youth was founded in 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It became the first college for African-Americans in the United States, although there were schools that admitted African Americans preceding it. At the time, public policy and certain statutory provisions prohibited the education of ...