Who was the first African American to enter a post secondary institution in the South?
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I'm having trouble finding that exact information. This might help, though: \n\nThe first known Black college graduate was in 1816, at the University of Vermont. This is from a book called "Black Firsts", which is in the Cleveland Public Library. So your person definately graduated after 1816. \n\nFrom what I can tell about the southern US, the first blacks were allowed into higher education at either Howard University, Morehouse College, or the Fisk School. The Fisk School was established in 1866, in Nashville. In 1867, it was incorporated as Fisk University, and was then able to grant university degrees. Howard University was founded in 1867, in Washington, D.C. Morehouse was founded in 1867 in Augusta, Georgia (it was first named the Augusta Institute). \n\nSo, the first black college student in the south likely entered the Fisk School, which later became Fisk University. But since it wasn't actually a degree-granting university until 1867, you could also argue that the first person may have come from Howard or Morehouse. \n\nYou may be able to find more if you check their websites. \n\nI've also included an interesting link for you, below:
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I go to CAU... and its the greatest thing in the world. CAU is in the top 20 for HBCUs and it isn't exactly in downtown Atlanta. Its the largest black school and its a wonderful experience.... Welcome to CAU!
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the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemical engineering
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Start with these sites.\n\nhttp://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1070392&nav=menu200_2\n\nhttp://www.collegeview.com/articles/CV/hbcu/hbcu_history.html
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Booker T. Washington was the first President/principal of Tuskegee Institute now Tuskegee University but it was founded by Lewis Adams of Tuskegee. Adams became a black educator after the civil war and was approched by a canadate for state senate (Alabama) asking what can he do to get the black vote in Macon County(Tuskegee). Adams asked for a school to be set-up in Tuskegee for blacks. The Canidate was elected and 2,000 dollars was appropreated for Tuskegee Normal And Industrial Institute. Then Mr. Adams and a host of other board members from Tuskegee contacted Hampton Institute to send them a leader for the newly developed school and they sent Booker T. Washington.
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Kelly Miller is the first Black mathematics graduate student\nIn 1887, the first Black. mathematics graduate student. Born: July 18, 1863 in Winnsboro, South Carolina. \nDied December 29, 1939
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Vonetta Flowers was the First African American to have won the Gold Medal at the Olympic Winter Games. (in bobsleigh)
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro\n\n...followed closely by...\n\nAppalachian State University
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BlackEnterprise/DayStar just completed a study in which they ranked what they term "The Top 50 Colleges and Universities for African-Americans." This excellent study resulted in a number of lists for national liberal arts colleges, national universities, regional liberal arts colleges, regional universities, and HBCUs. You can find their entire report at the website cited below. I urge you to visit, scroll down on the site, and see their various ranking lists.\n\nHere are the top 20 in their overall top 50 ranking, which as you will note, includes non-HBCUs, but most of their top ten are indeed HBCUs.\n\n1 Spelman College (Atlanta, GA)\n2 Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA)\n3 Florida A&M Univ. (Tallahassee, FL)\n4 Clark Atlanta Univ. (Atlanta, GA)\n5 Howard Univ. (Washington, DC)\n6 Xavier University (New Orleans, LA)\n7 Hampton Univ. (Hampton, VA)\n8 Tuskegee Univ. (Tuskegee, AL)\n9 N. Carolina A&T Univ. (Greensboro, NC)\n10 Stanford Univ. (Palo Alto, CA)\n11 Georgetown Univ. Washington, DC)\n12 Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)\n13 Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)\n14 Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)\n15 Columbia Univ. (New York, NY)\n16 Emory University (Atlanta, GA)\n17 Amherst College (Amherst, MA)\n18 Johnson C. Smith Univ. (Charlotte, NC)\n19 Univ. of N. Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)\n20 Duke University (Durham, NC)\n\nI'm not assuming you'd prefer an HBCU -- I am just noting that Clark Atlanta is highly ranked, and Norfolk State did not make the top 50 list.\n\nBest wishes, whichever school you choose!  :)
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1820s-1830s ish... reform was urgently needed. into the breach stepped Horace mann (1796-1859), a brilliant and idealistic graduate  of brown university.  as secretary of the massachusetts board of education, he campaigned effectively for more and better schoolhouses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum.  his influence radiated out to other states, and impressive improvements were chalked up. yet education remained an expensive luxury for man communities.  as late as 1860, the nation counted only about a hundred public secondary schools- and nearly a million white adult illiterates.  black slaves in the south were legally forbidden to receive instruction in reading or writing, and even black slaves, in the north as well as the south, were usually excluded from the schools.  Educational advances were aided by improved textbook, notably those of Noah Webster(1758-1843), a yale educated connecticut yankee who was known as the "schoolmaster of the republic". his reading lessons used by millions of children in the nineteenth century were partly designed to promote partiotism.  webster devoted 20 years to his famous dictionary, published in 1828 which helped to standardize the american language.  thomas jefferson founded the university of virginia.  women's education was frowned upon though a couple of seminaries were founded
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Okaloosa-Walton College.\n\nStill around apparently.
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On September 2, 1957, the day before the nine black students were to enter Central High, National Guardsmen surrounded the school. In a televised speech that night, Governor Orval Faubus explained that he had called the National Guardmen because he had heard that white supremacists from all over the state were descending on Little Rock. He declared Central off-limits to blacks and Horace Mann, the black high school, off-limits to whites. He also proclaimed that if the black students attempted to enter Central, "blood would run in the streets."\n\nThe black students did not attend the first day of school. Early on Wednesday, September 4, Daisy Bates of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), who was helping out the nine, called to tell them that they were to meet a few blocks away from the school and walk in together. Unfortunately, Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine, did not have a phone. She never received the message and attempted to enter the school alone through the front entrance. An angry mob met her, threatening to lynch her, as the Arkansas National Guard looked on. Fortunately, two whites stepped forward to aid her, and she escaped without injury. The other eight were also denied admittance by the National Guard, under orders from Governor Faubus
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I have NO Idea who the first african american to be in the Rodeo hall of fame was.... But Bill Picket was the African american who invented Bulldoging..But I don't know if he was in tthe Rodeo Hall of fame!
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Nope, he was born in Starkville, Mississippi, and grew up in Crawford, Mississippi, he also went to college at Mississippi Valley State.
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A friend of mine is currently pursuing his doctorate in U.S. history here at the University of Wisconsin - his dissertation's on African-American athletes in the 19th century. It's a fabulous school and has strong grad programs. You should check it out.
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LOL\nI'm from the south and I don't even know which I belong to. You could always go or call up your community center to find out.\nGood luck.\nPeace.
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I am a girl raised in the south