U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for November 20: Howard University
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
Profile America — Sunday, November 20th. One of the most renowned of America's historically black colleges was founded on this date in 1866 as the Howard Theological Seminary. Named after Civil War general and post-war Freedmen's Bureau Director Oliver O. Howard, the seminary changed its name to Howard University just two months after its founding. While not the first college to admit black students, nor the first to be established for blacks, Howard was the first to offer full undergraduate, graduate and professional training to blacks. When Howard opened its campus, college degrees were rare over all and practically unknown among blacks. Today, among the black population over the age of 25, almost 20 percent have bachelor's degrees or higher. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Kane's Famous First Facts, 2951
College history/accessed 9/6/2016:
https://www2.howard.edu/about/history
Educational attainment:
http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/14_1YR/S0201//popgroup~004
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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