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| <p align="right">Education of freed slaves begins in | |
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| Northern religious societies send white and black | |
| missionaries to the South to start schools.<br> | |
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| <strong>MID<br> | |
| LATE<br> | |
| 1800s</strong></p> | |
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| src="timeline/1802a.jpg" align="top" width="125" | |
| height="104"></a><p>Atlanta University's first classroom | |
| is an abandoned box car, Spelman's a church basement, and | |
| Tougaloo's a plantation. <p> | |
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| <td valign="top" rowspan="2"> <p> | |
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| align="top" width="70" height="99"></a></p> | |
| <p align="right">With $1.50 and 5 students, Mary | |
| McLeod-Bethune, a daughter of slaves, opens a vocational | |
| school, later to become Bethune-Cookman College in | |
| Daytona Beach, Florida.<br> | |
| Considered one of the great crusaders for black progress | |
| in the U. S., Dr. Bethune becomes advisor to four | |
| American presidents</p> | |
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| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFF00"> <p><p align="center"><strong>1904</strong></p> | |
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| <td valign="top" rowspan="9"> </td> | |
| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#008000"><p align="center"><strong>WWI-<br> | |
| WWII</strong></p> | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="timeline/ww1.jpg"><img | |
| src="timeline/ww1a.jpg" align="top" width="100" | |
| height="91"></a><p>Two generations of blacks now receive | |
| a college education. For the first time, many black | |
| colleges have black presidents.</p> | |
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| <td valign="top"><p align="right"><a | |
| href="timeline/1943.jpg"><img src="timeline/1943a.jpg" | |
| width="90" height="103"></a></p> | |
| <p align="right">Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, third | |
| president of Tuskegee Institute, writes an open letter to | |
| the presidents of other private black colleges urging | |
| them to "pool their small monies and make a united | |
| appeal to the national conscience." His letter is | |
| published in the weekly newspaper <i>The Pittsburgh | |
| Courier</i>.</p> | |
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| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#008000"><p align="center"><font | |
| size="1"><strong>JAN 30</strong></font><br><strong> 1943</strong></p> | |
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| <td valign="top" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#008000"><p | |
| align="center"><font size="1"><strong>APR 25</strong></font><strong><br> | |
| 1944</strong></p> | |
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| <td valign="top" rowspan="2"><a href="timeline/1944.jpg"><img | |
| src="timeline/1944a.jpg" align="top" width="80" | |
| height="119"></a><p>The United Negro College Fund, with | |
| 27 member colleges and universities is founded following | |
| a year of planning and development, its stated purpose | |
| "to aid the cause of higher education for members of | |
| the Negro people in the United States."</p> | |
| <p>Dr. Patterson is the founder and William Trent becomes | |
| UNCF’s first executive director.</p> <p> | |
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| <td valign="top"> <p> <p> <p> | |
| <p align="right"><a | |
| href="timeline/1944b.jpg"><img src="timeline/1944c.jpg" | |
| width="100" height="66"></a></p> | |
| <p align="right">UNCF’s first campaign receives the | |
| support of many prominent Americans including FDR and | |
| John D. Rockefeller. UNCF raises $765,000, three times | |
| what the institutions had raised separately the previous | |
| year.</p> | |
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| <td valign="top" rowspan="2"> </td> | |
| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#008000"><p align="center"><font | |
| color="#FFFFFF"><strong>WWII</strong></font></p> | |
| </td> | |
| <td valign="top" rowspan="2"><a href="timeline/ww2.jpg"><img | |
| src="timeline/ww2a.jpg" align="top" width="100" | |
| height="65"></a><p>Enlistees from Tuskegee Institute and | |
| other black colleges are the first African-Americans to | |
| undergo training as combat fighter pilots. In the skies | |
| over Italy and Germany, they destroy over 260 enemy | |
| aircraft.</p> | |
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| <td valign="top"><p align="right"><a | |
| href="timeline/1948.jpg"><img src="timeline/1948a.jpg" | |
| width="90" height="82"></a></p> | |
| <p align="right">Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. graduates | |
| from Morehouse College.</p> | |
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| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#003300"><p align="center"><font | |
| color="#FFFFFF"><strong>1948</strong></font></p> | |
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| <td valign="top"> </td> | |
| <td valign="top" bgcolor="#003300"><p align="center"><font | |
| color="#FFFFFF" size="2"><strong>MAY 17</strong></font><font | |
| color="#FFFFFF"><strong><br> | |
| 1954</strong></font></p> | |
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| <td valign="top"><a href="timeline/1954.jpg"><img | |
| src="timeline/1954a.jpg" align="top" width="90" | |
| height="108"></a><p>In <i>Brown vs. Board of Education</i> | |
| the Supreme Court unanimously rules public school | |
| segregation unconstitutional. </p> | |
| <p>This landmark ruling leads people to think there is no | |
| longer a need for historically black colleges. UNCF | |
| convinces donors that despite integration HBCUs are still | |
| uniquely qualified to educate blacks.</p> | |
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| href="timeline2.htm"><img src="timeline/more.gif" | |
| border="0" width="60" height="23"></a></td> | |
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