Fisk was founded after the end of the Civil War by missionaries of the Congregational Church in New England in order to educate newly freed slaves.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Mary McLeod Bethune
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The African American Civil Rights movement started when African Americans started speaking up for themselves, saying that they would not take any more harassment, and thus, begin the fight for equality and to end racism.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
the oldest African American college in Alabama is Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was started by Booker T. Washington and had inventor George Washington Carver as a professor. Alabama has more African American colleges than any other state.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities
African American freemasonry started in Boston, MA in the US.
African Americans started their own colleges.
Carter Woodson
The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill is the oldest public university. UNC started accepting students in 1795.