FCS School of the Day #45 - Howard
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:56 pm
Howard Bison
Private
Founded 1867
Washington, DC
Students: 2,817
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Colors: Red, White and Blue
Greene Stadium 10,000
2008 Record: 0-8, 0-10
Howard was established by a charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from endowment, private benefaction, and tuition. An annual congressional appropriation administered by the Secretary of the Interior funded the school.[citation needed] Today, it is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund[2] and is partially funded by the US Government, which gives approximately $235 million annually.[3][4] From its outset, it was nonsectarian and open to people of both sexes and all races.[5] Howard has graduate schools of pharmacy, law, medicine, dentistry and divinity, in addition to the undergraduate program. The current enrollment is approximately 11,000 students. The university's football homecoming activities serve as one of the premier annual events in Washington. [6]
Howard University has played an important role in American history and the Civil Rights Movement on a number of occasions. Alain Locke, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and first African American Rhodes Scholar, authored The New Negro, which helped to usher in the Harlem Renaissance.[7] Ralph Bunche, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner of African descent, served as chair of the Department of Political Science.[8] Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Toure, a student in the Department of Philosophy and the Howard University School of Divinity coined the term "Black Power" and worked in Lowndes County, Alabama as a voting rights activist.[9] Historian Rayford Logan served as chair of the Department of History.[10] E. Franklin Frazier served as chair of the Department of Sociology.[11] Sterling Allen Brown served as chair of the Department of English.
Young Lincoln University graduate Thurgood Marshall wanted to apply to his hometown law school, the University of Maryland School of Law, but was told that he would not be accepted due to the school's segregation policy. Marshall enrolled at Howard University School of Law instead. There he studied under Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard Law School graduate and leading civil rights lawyer who at the time was the dean of Howard's law school. Houston took Marshall under his wing, and the two forged a friendship that would last for the remainder of Houston's life. Howard University was the site where Marshall and his team of legal scholars from around the nation prepared to argue the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.[12]
Notable Alumni:
Vernon Jordan Attorney, Senior Managing Director with Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, former president of the Urban League
Hon. Roland Burris United States Senator
Hon. David Dinkins first African-American mayor of New York City
Hon. Mike Espy first African-American United States Secretary of Agriculture
Harold Ford, Sr. former United States Representative from Tennessee
Hon. Thurgood Marshall (School of Law) first African-American United States Supreme Court justice
Hon. Andrew Young first African-American United Nations Ambassador and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
Me'Shell NdegéOcello recording artist (singer & bassist)
Crystal Waters singer
Ossie Davis actor and activist
Phylicia Rashad
Roxie Roker
Isaiah Washington actor, ("Get On The Bus", "Grey's Anatomy")
Marlon Wayans actor ("Little Man", "White Chicks")
Private
Founded 1867
Washington, DC
Students: 2,817
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Colors: Red, White and Blue
Greene Stadium 10,000
2008 Record: 0-8, 0-10
Howard was established by a charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from endowment, private benefaction, and tuition. An annual congressional appropriation administered by the Secretary of the Interior funded the school.[citation needed] Today, it is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund[2] and is partially funded by the US Government, which gives approximately $235 million annually.[3][4] From its outset, it was nonsectarian and open to people of both sexes and all races.[5] Howard has graduate schools of pharmacy, law, medicine, dentistry and divinity, in addition to the undergraduate program. The current enrollment is approximately 11,000 students. The university's football homecoming activities serve as one of the premier annual events in Washington. [6]
Howard University has played an important role in American history and the Civil Rights Movement on a number of occasions. Alain Locke, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and first African American Rhodes Scholar, authored The New Negro, which helped to usher in the Harlem Renaissance.[7] Ralph Bunche, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner of African descent, served as chair of the Department of Political Science.[8] Stokely Carmichael, also known as Kwame Toure, a student in the Department of Philosophy and the Howard University School of Divinity coined the term "Black Power" and worked in Lowndes County, Alabama as a voting rights activist.[9] Historian Rayford Logan served as chair of the Department of History.[10] E. Franklin Frazier served as chair of the Department of Sociology.[11] Sterling Allen Brown served as chair of the Department of English.
Young Lincoln University graduate Thurgood Marshall wanted to apply to his hometown law school, the University of Maryland School of Law, but was told that he would not be accepted due to the school's segregation policy. Marshall enrolled at Howard University School of Law instead. There he studied under Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard Law School graduate and leading civil rights lawyer who at the time was the dean of Howard's law school. Houston took Marshall under his wing, and the two forged a friendship that would last for the remainder of Houston's life. Howard University was the site where Marshall and his team of legal scholars from around the nation prepared to argue the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.[12]
Notable Alumni:
Vernon Jordan Attorney, Senior Managing Director with Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, former president of the Urban League
Hon. Roland Burris United States Senator
Hon. David Dinkins first African-American mayor of New York City
Hon. Mike Espy first African-American United States Secretary of Agriculture
Harold Ford, Sr. former United States Representative from Tennessee
Hon. Thurgood Marshall (School of Law) first African-American United States Supreme Court justice
Hon. Andrew Young first African-American United Nations Ambassador and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
Me'Shell NdegéOcello recording artist (singer & bassist)
Crystal Waters singer
Ossie Davis actor and activist
Phylicia Rashad
Roxie Roker
Isaiah Washington actor, ("Get On The Bus", "Grey's Anatomy")
Marlon Wayans actor ("Little Man", "White Chicks")