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unusual facts about historically black university



Avon Williams

He was a 1940 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University, an historically black university located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Edmund Sim

His father is Yawsoon Sim, a professor of political science at Grambling State University, a historically black university.

Johnson C. Smith

After he died in 1919, his wife, Jane Berry Smith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania gave funds to build a theological dormitory, a science hall, a teachers' cottage, and a memorial gate at the Biddle University, an historically black university in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Oakley C. Johnson

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Johnson spent the next six years teaching at historically black universities in the deep South, including Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, Dillard University in New Orleans, and Tillotson College in Austin, Texas.

WHCJ

As a public radio station located on the campus of an historically Black university, WHCJ has become the principal source of cultural programming for Savannah’s African-American community, but the station's audience is considerable and diverse; not limited to any one ethnic group.


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