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June 16, 2004. Wilberforce University is a private historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. Affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), it was the first college to be owned and operated by African Americans. Central State University, also in Wilberforce, Ohio, began as a department of Wilberforce University.
Contents. List of Iota Phi Theta chapters. Iota Phi Theta is an historically African American fraternity founded in 1963 at Morgan State University in Maryland. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Following is a list of collegiate and alumni chapters of Iota Phi Theta. Its chapters start as colonies and are assigned a Greek letter chapter designation after ...
Wilberforce University was also established prior to the American Civil War. [20] The university was founded in 1856 via a collaboration between the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Ohio and the predominantly white Methodist Episcopal Church. [21] HBCUs were controversial in their early years.
Central State University (CSU) is a public, historically black land-grant university in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Established by the state legislature in 1887 as a two-year program for teacher and industrial training, it was originally located with Wilberforce University, a ...
Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio: August 24, 1944 – August 27, 1944: Convention was a year late because of a war emergency. The petition was made by undergraduates to be represented on the executive board. Gloria Hewlett was chosen as the first undergraduate second-vice president. [1] [2] 18 th: Richmond, Virginia
Benjamin Franklin Lee (September 18, 1841 – March 12, 1926) was a religious leader and educator in the United States. He was the president of Wilberforce University from 1876 to 1884. He was editor of the Christian Recorder from 1884 to 1892. He was then elected a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, serving from 1892 until ...
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Phi Beta Sigma (ΦΒΣ) is an international historically Black fraternity. Founded on January 9, 1914, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., Phi Beta Sigma has chartered chapters at other colleges, universities, and cities, and named them with Greek-letters. The fraternity's expansion started with its second (Beta) and third ...