The Institute for Colored Youth was founded in 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It became the first college for African-Americans in...
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university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, it is the oldest of all historically black colleges and universities...
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2022. For detail of the university's early history from its origins as the Institute for Colored Youth, see Milton M. James, The Institute for Colored Youth...
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founded a school for African Americans in Philadelphia. Originally called the African Institute, it was renamed the Institute for Colored Youth and eventually...
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at the Philadelphia's Institute for Colored Youth. She then went on to teach at the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth, known today as Dunbar...
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Octavius Catto (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
rights activist. He became principal of male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had also been educated. Born free in Charleston, South...
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Grace A. Mapps (section Institute for Colored Youth)
Mapps' departure from the Institute for Colored Youth, she was replaced by Fanny Jackson Coppin. Mapps' successor at the institute, Fanny Jackson Coppin,...
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State Capitol and tracked across the Texas Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute for Colored Youth and Deep Eddy, injuring at least five people and causing around...
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advocate for female higher education. One of the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College, she served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia...
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educator and civil rights activist who served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth (now the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania) from 1902 to 1913...
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