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Howard University Information
Howard University is a historically black university in Washington, D.C.
Howard was established in 1867 by congressional order and named after Oliver O.
Howard. Notable alumni include Toni Morrison, Thurgood Marshall (Law School),
Ossie Davis, Debbie Allen, Roberta Flack, Claude Brown, Shaka Hislop and
Phylicia Rashad.
Howard was established by a congressional charter in 1867, and much of its
early funding came from the Freedmen's Bureau. Today, it is a member school of
the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. The college was named after General
Oliver O. Howard who was commissioner of the Freeman Bureau and the college's
third president. From its outset, it was nonsectarian and open to people of both
sexes and all races. Howard has graduate schools of law, medicine, dentistry and
divinity, in addition to the undergraduate program. The current enrollment (as
of 2003) is approximately 11,000, including 7,000 undergraduates. It should also
be noted that the university's football homecoming activities serve as one of
the premier annual events in Washington.
The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) is recognized as one of the world's
largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history
and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other
parts of the world. As one of the university's major research facilities, the
MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of
resources chronicling the Black experience.