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Howard University is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research extensive historically black university in Washington, D.C. Affectionately known as "Black Harvard," Howard was established in 1867 by congressional order and named after Oliver O. Howard. Notable alumni include Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (Howard University Law School), Ossie Davis, Debbie Allen, Roberta Flack, Claude Brown, Shaka Hislop, Richard Smallwood and Phylicia Rashad. Howard University is the number one producer of African American Ph.D.'s in the nation.
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HistoryImage:Howard U.jpg Founders Library is an iconic building on the Howard University campus that has been declared a National Historic Landmark. Howard University has played an important role in American history and the Civil Rights Movement on a number of occasions. Alain Locke, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and first African American Rhodes Scholar, authored The New Negro which helped to usher in the Harlem Rennisance. Ralph Bunche, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner of African descent, served as chair of the Department of Political Science. Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Toure, a student in the Department of Philosophy coined the term Black Power and worked in Lowndes County, Alabama as a voting rights activist. Historian Rayford Logan served as chair of the Department of History. E. Franklin Frazier served as chair of the Department of Sociology. Sterling Allen Brown served as chair of the Department of English. After being refused admission to the then-white-only University of Maryland School of Law, a young Lincoln University, PA graduate 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. Howard was the founding of the Alpha chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma, and Zeta Phi Beta, all National Pan-Hellenic Council members.
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 and colleges
Research CentersMoorland-Spingarn Research CenterThe Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of the university's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience. Presidents of Howard University
AlumniHoward University has conferred 99,318 degrees and certificates in its 137-year history. Noteworthy alumni include a Nobel Laureate, educators, politicians, United States ambassadors, writers, prominent international figures, and corporate executives. Joyce Ladner was the only woman to serve as president of Howard University (1994-1994)
Greek organizations originated at Howard University
Howard University also is host to many chapters of non-NPHC Greek organizations, including Phi Mu Alpha, Sigma Alpha Iota, Delta Sigma Pi, Phi Sigma Pi, Alpha Phi Omega, Pi Kappa Alpha, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma. Trivia
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