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University of the District of Columbia
The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is a public historically black land-grant university in Washington, D.C., United States. The only public university in the city, it traces its origins to 1851 and opened in its current form in 1977. The university offers workforce and certificate programs in addition to associate, baccalaureate, master's, professional and doctoral degrees. Its schools include the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Business and Public Administration, College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences, David A. Clarke School of Law and UDC Community College.
The university's main campus is at Van Ness in the North Cleveland Park neighborhood. Other campuses and sites include the Lamond-Riggs campus, Congress Heights campus, aviation facilities at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and the UDC Firebird Farm Research Farm in Beltsville, Maryland. UDC is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
The University of the District of Columbia was consolidated on August 1, 1977, through the merging of Federal City College, Washington Technical Institute, and District of Columbia Teachers College. The university traces its founding to the earliest of its predecessor institutions (Normal School for Colored Girls) which was founded in 1851.
In 1851, Myrtilla Miner founded the Normal School for Colored Girls, the first normal school in the District of Columbia and the fourth in the United States. Amid considerable racist opposition, the school began operations on December 3 with six students in a rented room about 14 feet square, in a frame house then owned and occupied as a dwelling by African American Edward Younger.
The school trained young black women to become teachers. Among its benefactors were the Society of Friends, Henry Ward Beecher, and his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe; Stowe donated $1,000 ($29,900 today) from the sales of her book Uncle Tom's Cabin. Although Mayor Walter Lenox believed that education would make Blacks a "restless population" and local residents formed some mobs in opposition to the school, the school remained open until the Civil War began. Reopened after her death, by 1879 the Normal School for Colored Girls was then known as Miner Normal School. It joined the D.C. public education system in 1879.
In 1873, the Washington Normal School, a teaching school for white girls was established in Washington, D.C. In 1913, it was renamed the James Ormond Wilson Normal School.
In 1929, the United States Congress made Miner Normal School and James Ormond Wilson Normal School four-year teachers' colleges: Miner Teachers College for African Americans and Wilson Teachers College for white people. On July 1, 1955, following Brown v. Board of Education, the two schools merged into the District of Columbia Teachers College.
On November 7, 1966, the District of Columbia School Reform Act, sponsored by U.S. Senator Wayne Morse (D-Oregon) and Representative Ancher Nelsen (R-Minnesota), was enacted as Public Law 89-791. It established two institutions, each with land-grant status and a $7.24 million endowment in lieu of a land grant:
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University of the District of Columbia
The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is a public historically black land-grant university in Washington, D.C., United States. The only public university in the city, it traces its origins to 1851 and opened in its current form in 1977. The university offers workforce and certificate programs in addition to associate, baccalaureate, master's, professional and doctoral degrees. Its schools include the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Business and Public Administration, College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences, David A. Clarke School of Law and UDC Community College.
The university's main campus is at Van Ness in the North Cleveland Park neighborhood. Other campuses and sites include the Lamond-Riggs campus, Congress Heights campus, aviation facilities at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and the UDC Firebird Farm Research Farm in Beltsville, Maryland. UDC is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
The University of the District of Columbia was consolidated on August 1, 1977, through the merging of Federal City College, Washington Technical Institute, and District of Columbia Teachers College. The university traces its founding to the earliest of its predecessor institutions (Normal School for Colored Girls) which was founded in 1851.
In 1851, Myrtilla Miner founded the Normal School for Colored Girls, the first normal school in the District of Columbia and the fourth in the United States. Amid considerable racist opposition, the school began operations on December 3 with six students in a rented room about 14 feet square, in a frame house then owned and occupied as a dwelling by African American Edward Younger.
The school trained young black women to become teachers. Among its benefactors were the Society of Friends, Henry Ward Beecher, and his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe; Stowe donated $1,000 ($29,900 today) from the sales of her book Uncle Tom's Cabin. Although Mayor Walter Lenox believed that education would make Blacks a "restless population" and local residents formed some mobs in opposition to the school, the school remained open until the Civil War began. Reopened after her death, by 1879 the Normal School for Colored Girls was then known as Miner Normal School. It joined the D.C. public education system in 1879.
In 1873, the Washington Normal School, a teaching school for white girls was established in Washington, D.C. In 1913, it was renamed the James Ormond Wilson Normal School.
In 1929, the United States Congress made Miner Normal School and James Ormond Wilson Normal School four-year teachers' colleges: Miner Teachers College for African Americans and Wilson Teachers College for white people. On July 1, 1955, following Brown v. Board of Education, the two schools merged into the District of Columbia Teachers College.
On November 7, 1966, the District of Columbia School Reform Act, sponsored by U.S. Senator Wayne Morse (D-Oregon) and Representative Ancher Nelsen (R-Minnesota), was enacted as Public Law 89-791. It established two institutions, each with land-grant status and a $7.24 million endowment in lieu of a land grant: