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  2. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Nickname. Wolves. Website. cheyney.edu. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public historically black university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, [5] it is the oldest of all historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. It is a member of the Pennsylvania State System ...

  3. Richard Humphreys (philanthropist) - Wikipedia

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    Richard Humphreys (February 13, 1750 – 1832) [1] was an American silversmith and philanthropist who founded a school for African Americans in Philadelphia. Originally called the African Institute, it was renamed the Institute for Colored Youth and eventually became Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest historically black university in the United States.

  4. Cheyney, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Cheyney is an unincorporated community that sits astride Chester and Delaware counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It corresponds to the census-designated place known as Cheyney University, which had a population of 988 at the 2010 census, [1] and 565 at the 2020 census. [2] It is the home of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.

  5. What is an HBCU? A look at North Carolina’s historic Black ...

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    That school was the African Institution in Pennsylvania, renamed Cheyney University ... located in Greensboro, NC. It was founded in 1873 as a teaching school for newly freed slaves ...

  6. Octavius Catto - Wikipedia

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    Octavius Catto. Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. He became principal of male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had also been educated. Born free in Charleston, South Carolina, in a prominent mixed-race family, he moved north ...

  7. List of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania alumni - Wikipedia

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    Cole was the second African-American woman physician in the United States and the first black woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. James B. Dudley. ca. 1870. Graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth around 1875 (now Cheyney University). For college Dudley attended Shaw College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

  8. Institute for Colored Youth - Wikipedia

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    Institute for Colored Youth. The Institute for Colored Youth was founded in 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It became the first college for African-Americans in the United States, although there were schools that admitted African Americans preceding it. At the time, public policy and certain statutory provisions prohibited ...

  9. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education - Wikipedia

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    The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is an American state agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that oversees 10 state-owned universities. Collectively, it is the largest provider of higher education in the commonwealth. All of the schools are primarily NCAA Division II members and affiliated with the Pennsylvania ...