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The founding of the college was unique as a collaboration in 1856 by the Cincinnati, Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). They planned a college to provide classical education and teacher training for black youth. Leaders of both races made up the first board members.

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  • Wilberforce University
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  • The founding of the college was unique as a collaboration in 1856 by the Cincinnati, Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). They planned a college to provide classical education and teacher training for black youth. Leaders of both races made up the first board members.
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  • Wilberforce_University_Seal.jpg
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campus
  • Rural
Affiliation
Nickname
  • Bulldogs
Footnotes
  • --06-16
Country
  • United States
Name
Type
  • Private, HBCU
Caption
  • Seal of Wilberforce University
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  • Economist
  • American jazz musician
  • entrepreneur
  • composer and conductor: the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, and the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company
  • American musician; member of the Count Basie Orchestra
  • playwright, librarian, and member of the Harlem Renaissance
  • city commissioner and first African-American mayor of Dayton, Ohio
  • American jazz composer and theorist
  • former college football coach at Southern University from 1936 to 1961. He also coached at Jarvis Christian College, Bishop College, Texas College. Member of College Football Hall of Fame
  • Recipient of the Medal of Honor
  • Software Architect
  • U.S. Army chaplain and Buffalo Soldier
  • U.S. Congressman, Wilberforce-President
  • U.S. Foreign Service Officer
  • business executive and civil rights leader
  • Opera singer and first African-American prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera
  • educator, writer and activist
  • politician and civil rights activist, who is considered one of the most influential African-Americans in the history of Kansas City, Missouri
  • pioneering civil rights activist
  • American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, pianist, and drummer
  • African-American doctor notable for self-defense in 1925 against a white mob's attempt to force him out of his Detroit neighborhood, and acquittal at trial.
  • first African American woman to be an officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and was the commanding officer of the first battalion of African American women to serve overseas during WWII.
  • American sociologist and Harvard University professor
  • the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from a German university, and also the first African American with a Ph.D. to teach psychology in the United States
Students
  • 489(xsd:integer)
Colors
  • Green and Gold
President
  • Patrica Hardaway
Athletics
Established
  • 1856(xsd:integer)
sports
  • basketball
Affiliations
State
City
Website
Motto
  • Suo Marte
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  • By one’s own toil, effort, courage
Year
  • 1873(xsd:integer)
  • 1881(xsd:integer)
  • 1902(xsd:integer)
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