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Howard University
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BackgroundHoward was established by a congressional charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from the Freedmen's Bureau. The college was named after General Oliver O. Howard who was commissioner of the Freeman Bureau and the college's third president. From its outset, it was nonsectarian and open to people of both sexes and all races. Howard has graduate schools of law, medicine, dentistry and divinity, in addition to the undergraduate program. The current enrollment (as of 2003) is approximately 11,000, including 7,000 undergraduates. It should also be noted that the university's football homecoming activities serve as one of the premier annual events in Washington.History
Howard University has played an important role in civil rights history on a number of occasions. After being refused admission to the then-white-only University of Maryland School of Law, a young Thurgood Marshall enrolled at Howard University School of Law instead. There he studied under Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard Law School graduate and leading civil rights lawyer who at the time was the dean of Howard's law school. Houston took Marshall under his wing, and the two forged a friendship that would last for the remainder of Houston's life and forever change America. Howard University was the site where Marshall and his team of legal scholars from around the nation prepared to argue the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.
In 1907, Howard University, among historically black schools was the scene of the organization of the first black Greek letter fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha's Beta chapter, and the site for the fraternity's fist General Convention in 1908. Howard would also witness the founding of the Alpha chapter of five National Pan-Hellenic Council member organizations. Major improvements, additions, and changes occurred at the school in the aftermath of World War One. In 1918, all the secondary schools of the university were abolished and the whole plan of undergraduate work changed. The four-year college course was divided into two periods of two years each, the Junior College, and the Senior Schools. The semester system was abolished in 1919 and the quarter system substituted. Twenty-three new members were added to the faculty between the reorganization of 1918 and 1923. A dining hall building with class rooms for the department of home economics was built in 1921 at a cost of $301,000. A greenhouse was erected in 1919. Howard Hall was renovated and made a dormitory for girls; many improvements were made on campus; J. Stanley Durkee, became president in 1918. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a speech to the graduating class at Howard, where he outlined his plans for civil rights legislation. Schools & Colleges
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Notable alumniHoward University has conferred 99,318 degrees and certificates in its 137-year history. Noteworthy alumni are educators, politicians, United States ambassadors, writers, prominent international figures, corporate executives, and a Nobel Laureate.Academia
Arts, Media, Music & Literature
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See alsoHoward University in Washington, D.C., the most prominent African American educational institution in the U.S. It is financially supported by the U.S. government but is privately controlled. Though open to students of any ethnicity, it was founded (1867) with a special obligation to educate African American students. It has a college of liberal arts, a graduate school of arts and sciences, and schools or colleges of business and public administration, engineering, human ecology, medicine, dentistry, and law, among others. Its library is the leading research library on African American history. For more information on Howard University, visit Britannica.com. Founded Greek Organizations of Howard University
TriviaIn an article from the Museum of Broadcast Communications, the Hollywood Reporter is quoted as stating that when Howard alumna Debbie Allen became the producer-director of the popular television series, A Different World (which dealt with the life of students at the fictional historically Black college, Hillman, and ran for six seasons on NBC), Allen, herself,:a graduate of historically black 'Howard University'--drew from her college experiences in an effort to accurately reflect in the show the social and political life on black campuses. Moreover, Allen instituted a yearly spring trip to Atlanta where series writers visited two of the nation's leading black colleges, 'Morehouse' and 'Spelman'. During these visits, ideas for several of the episodes emerged from meetings with students and faculty" http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/D/htmlD/differentwor/differentwor.htm External links
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