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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.
musical composer, studied at Juilliard and Columbia University: William L. Dawson (politician) 1909 U.S. Congressman (1943–1970) Charles Diggs: United States House of Representatives Michigan (1955–1980) Mahala Ashley Dickerson: 1935 first black female attorney in the state of Alabama and first black president of the National Association of ...
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 ...
Charles H. Wesley. Charles Harris Wesley (December 2, 1891 – August 16, 1987) was an American historian, educator, minister, and author. He published more than 15 books on African-American history, taught for decades at Howard University, and served as president of Wilberforce University, and founding president of Central State University ...
The list of Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) brothers (commonly referred to as Alphas) [ 1 ] includes initiated and honorary members. Alpha Phi Alpha is the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for Black college students. [ 2 ] Convened in December 1905 as a literary society with the first presiding officer being CC Poindexter ...
William Sanders Scarborough (February 16, 1852 – September 9, 1926) is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Born into slavery, Scarborough served as president of Wilberforce University between 1908 and 1920. He wrote a popular university textbook on Classical Greek that was widely used in the 19th century.
For the next two decades, Williams taught at Edward Waters College, Shorter College, Morris Brown College, and at her alma mater, Wilberforce, all A.M.E.-affiliated institutions. She completed her PhD in speech communication in 1959 at the Ohio State University and immediately joined the faculty of Tennessee State University. After being ...
She wrote the song, "Lifting as We Climb", for the Ohio chapter of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. Personal life. Susie Isabel Lankford married Joseph Proctor Shorter, a professor at Wilberforce University, in 1878. They had eight children together; at least three of their children died before reaching their teens.