• Wilberforce University is a private historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. Affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), it...
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  • Central State University (CSU) is a public, historically black land-grant university in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States. It is a member-school of the...
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    William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade...
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  • against the slave trade Wilberforce, New South Wales Wilberforce Cemetery Wilberforce Park Wilberforce, Ontario Wilberforce Colony, Ontario; an 18th-century...
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    several structures in Wilberforce, including multiple campus and residential buildings of Wilberforce University. Central State University also sustained significant...
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  • 1851, and Lincoln University in 1854. Wilberforce University was also established prior to the American Civil War. The university was founded in 1856...
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    Samuel Wilberforce, FRS (7 September 1805 – 19 July 1873) was an English bishop in the Church of England, and the third son of William Wilberforce. Known...
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    Dorothy Vaughan (category Wilberforce University alumni)
    Convention to attend Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio. She joined the Zeta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Wilberforce and graduated in...
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    in Toronto in 1880. He had an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Wilberforce University awarded in June 1883. In the 1860s, Arnett was active in the civil...
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  • Willis Laurence James (category Wilberforce University alumni)
    Carnegie Foundation and in 1955 received an honorary doctorate from Wilberforce University. In April 1966, he lectured at the opening of the Center for the...
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  • Yvonne Seon (category Wilberforce University faculty)
    coordinator of student affairs at Wilberforce University, which was a fraught position due to the centrality of university students to the protests of 1968...
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  • Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, CMG, OBE, PC (11 March 1907 – 15 February 2003) was a British judge. He was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from...
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  • This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established...
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    William Grant Still (category Wilberforce University alumni)
    Mississippi and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Still attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student of George Whitefield...
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    W. E. B. Du Bois (category Wilberforce University faculty)
    from Tuskegee Institute; he accepted a teaching job at Wilberforce University in Ohio. At Wilberforce, Du Bois was strongly influenced by Alexander Crummell...
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    Nina Gomer Du Bois (category Wilberforce University alumni)
    family in 1878. She attended Wilberforce College. She married the activist W.E.B. Du Bois, who had been a teacher at Wilberforce College, on May 12, 1896...
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    Barbara Ann Wilberforce (née Spooner; 1771 – 21 April 1847) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce. She was born in Birches Green,...
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    William Sanders Scarborough (category Wilberforce University faculty)
    Scarborough served as president of Wilberforce University between 1908 and 1920. He wrote a popular university textbook on Classical Greek that was...
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    Charity Adams Earley (category Wilberforce University alumni)
    from Booker T. Washington High School as valedictorian and from Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1938, majoring in math and physics. Charity Adams Earley...
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    Alien Technology (category Wilberforce University)
    Alien Technology, founded in 1994, is a manufacturer of RFID technology. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, having the Alien RFID Solutions...
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  • independent historically black college (HBCU), Wilberforce University in Ohio. Among Wilberforce University's early founders was Salmon P. Chase, then-governor...
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  • Ossian Sweet (category Wilberforce University alumni)
    Sweet went to Wilberforce College for preparatory work and his undergraduate degree. He earned his medical degree from Howard University, also a historically...
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  • Sidi Moro Sanneh (category Wilberforce University alumni)
    He attended university in the United States, completing a bachelor's degree in economics and political science at Wilberforce University, Ohio. He then...
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  • black schools, such as Hampton Institute, Tuskegee Institute and Wilberforce University, followed suit. Many independent jubilee troupes also found inspiration...
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    Alpha Kappa Nu (category Indiana University)
    school. A second chapter was set to be established at Wilberforce University. Wilberforce University was where the fraternity Gamma Phi was founded in 1905...
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  • Milton Wright (academic) (category Wilberforce University alumni)
    received his B.A. from Wilberforce University in 1926, his M.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Economics from Germany’s University of Heidelberg in...
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  • James H. McGee (category Wilberforce University alumni)
    graduated from Wilberforce University in 1937. After serving in the United States Army, he received a law degree from Ohio State University in 1948. He moved...
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  • The 1945 Wilberforce Green Wave football team was an American football team that represented Wilberforce University in the Midwest Athletic Association...
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    The Wilberforce Monument is a monument honoring English politician and abolitionist William Wilberforce in Kingston Upon Hull, England. The ashlar structure...
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    Charles Young (United States Army officer) (category Wilberforce University faculty)
    permission to organize his volunteer division. Young returned to Wilberforce University, where he was a professor of military science through most of 1918...
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