TSUlady
from Bloomington, IL
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Aug 2004
^^^ I still don't know about that one but oh well 8)
TSUlady
from Bloomington, IL
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Aug 2004
^^^ On the HBCU timeline it said that one of the pennsylvania HBCU's were the first founded. I'm not sure whether it was Cheyney or Lincoln but I believed it cuz I saw it on more than one website. I don't go to either school, but I remember it cuz not a lot of HBCU's are in the north.
Quote: ^^^ On the HBCU timeline it said that one of the pennsylvania HBCU's were the first founded. I'm not sure whether it was Cheyney or Lincoln but I believed it cuz I saw it on more than one website. I don't go to either school, but I remember it cuz not a lot of HBCU's are in the north.
Boy, I guess I'll have to give a lesson in history and in reading comprehension.
1837:
The institute of colored youth is established in Cheyney, Penn. as a school teaching elementary and high school education. Later renamed as Cheyney University.
1865:
Shaw University, the oldest HBCU in the South, is founded in Raleigh, N.C.
On December 1, 1865, when Henry Martin Tupper undertook the organization of a theology class as a means of teaching Freedmen to read and interpret the Bible, no one envisioned the end result of this being the establishment of a university. Rapid growth in the size of this class led to the purchase of land in 1866 for the purpose of erecting a building to serve as both church and school. The school was named the "Raleigh Institute," and it functioned as such until 1870, when it was supplanted by the "Shaw Collegiate Institute."
Quote: Speaking of history, the HBCU movement in the SOUTH started in North Carolina (Shaw University). Respect your roots.
TSUlady
from Bloomington, IL
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Aug 2004
^^^That's cool but let me show you what I found out:
1837:
The institute of colored youth is established in Cheyney, Penn. as a school teaching elementary and high school education. Later renamed as Cheyney University. (that part is correct)
Established in 1837 through a bequest from a Philadelphia Quaker who wished to see that young people of African descent had access to education, Cheyney is the oldest HBCU. One of 14 state universities under the State System of Higher Education in Pennsylvania, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania was originally located in Philadelphia, the university was moved to its present location in Cheyney in 1903.
1854:
Founded in 1854 as Ashmun Institute, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania was originally intended to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African descent. In 1866, the institute was renamed Lincoln University after President Abraham Lincoln and opened its doors to admit women students in 1952. A prominent university since its inception, Lincoln graduated approximately 20 percent of the Black physicians and more than 10 percent of the Black attorneys in the United States during the first one hundred years of its existence.
1856:
Wilberforce University is founded in Wilberforce, Ohio and becomes the first Black College for WOMEN, and oldest private black liberal arts college in the nation.
Wilberforce University is named after the 18th century English statesman and abolitionist William Wilberforce. The University is religiously affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a participant in the United Negro College Fund. Opened in 1856 during one of the most tumultuous times in American history, it is reportedly the first institution of higher education owned and operated by African Americans (note that Cheyney University predates it, but was not owned and operated by African Americans).
so according to your information Shaw University was founded in 1865, and Wilberforce was founded in 1856.
Once again, I said that Cheyney is the oldest HBCU; my original statement was that Shaw is the oldest HBCU located in the south.
Now if people from Pennsylvania, wanna enter the convo on the best state for HBCU's then let them come on. Until then, I stand by my original statements.
TSUlady wrote: ^^^ I still don't know about that one but oh well 8)
^^Yeah its true, combined enrollments of all 11 NC HBCU's is close to @ 40,000 maybe even more. In another 3-4 years, it could be 50K, right now A&T and NCCU alone are knockin at 20,000 together.
And BTW....Shaw is the first HBCU in the South. Im from Raleigh, and I do know that. It is still a very noteable fact to have been the first HBCU founded in the South, the same year as the Civil War ended.
Alabama and Georgia
ASU(reppin that AS,AS,AS,AS, motherf*ckin U oooooooo)
AAMU
Tuskegee
Talladega
Miles
I will be back with more
I'm going to have to go with GA(Spelman,Morehouse,Clark ATL,Albany) on this one, then Louisiana(Dillard,Xavier,Grambling,Southern U) comes in a close second. :wink:
