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<p align="right">Education of freed slaves begins in
Union Army encampments during the Civil War. Later,<br>
Northern religious societies send white and black
missionaries to the South to start schools.<br>
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LATE<br>
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<a href="timeline/1802.jpg"><img
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height="104"></a><p>Atlanta University's first classroom
is an abandoned box car, Spelman's a church basement, and
Tougaloo's a plantation.&nbsp;<p>
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<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"><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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<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 &quot;pool their small monies and make a united
appeal to the national conscience.&quot; His letter is
published in the weekly newspaper <i>The Pittsburgh
Courier</i>.</p>
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1944</strong></p>
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<td valign="top" rowspan="2"><a href="timeline/1944.jpg"><img
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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
&quot;to aid the cause of higher education for members of
the Negro people in the United States.&quot;</p>
<p>Dr. Patterson is the founder and William Trent becomes
UNCF&#146;s first executive director.</p>&nbsp;<p>
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<p align="right">UNCF&#146;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"><a href="timeline/ww2.jpg"><img
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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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<p align="right">Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. graduates
from Morehouse College.</p>
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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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