Howard University
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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.