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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 of Higher Education and the Thurgood ...
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Reba Dickerson-Hill. 1940. Dickerson-Hill was an artist who painted in the Japanese brush technique sumi-e. She graduated from Cheyney State Teachers College in 1940 and taught elementary grades in the Philadelphia School District before becoming a full-time painter. Her mediums included watercolor, oil and acrylics.
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.
Cheyney Wolves. The Cheyney Wolves are the athletic sports teams for Cheyney University. They compete as an independent and formerly played in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). [2] Women's sports include basketball, cheerleading and volleyball. Basketball is the only men's sport the university currently offers as of 2019.
William Adger. 1883, first African American University of Pennsylvania baccalaureate degree graduate. Edythe Scott Bagley. founder of the theater department; sibling of Coretta Scott King. Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett. second principal; first African American American diplomat. Edward Bouchet. hired in 1876; first African American Yale ...
Richard Humphreys (February 13, 1750 – 1832) 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.
Robert Woodson. Categories: Alumni by university or college in Pennsylvania. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Alumni by historically black university or college in the United States. Hidden category: Automatic category TOC generates no TOC.