Xavier University
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Xavier University in Louisiana is the nation’s only institution of higher learning that is historically Black and Catholic. According to the U.S. Department of Education, Xavier continues to rank first nationally in the number of African American students earning undergraduate degrees in biology, physics, and the physical sciences overall. In pre-medical education, Xavier is first in the nation in placing African American students into medical schools, where it has been ranked for the past nine years. 92% of those who enter medical schools complete their degree programs. Xavier is not a wealthy institution. It has learned to do much with limited means. But in spite of financial limits, The New York Times Selective Guide to Colleges has observed that “Xavier is a school where achievement has been the rule, and beating the odds against success a routine occurrence.”
Information provided by: Marlive Harris and students at McWhorter Elementary School, Carrollton, TX.
Topics: HBCU
York
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When Meriwether Lewis met up with William Clark along the Ohio River, which was the start of their famous Lewis & Clark Expedition, Clark’s body servant and slave, York, accompanied them. William Clark inherited York from his father. It will be the personal journals that Clark keeps about this expedition that mentions York’s name which provides historians insight into why Indians were fascinated with him as well as his role as the only black man involved with this famous expedition.
For more information, visit the following Web site: York and Slave Society
Information provided by: Marlive Harris and students at McWhorter Elementary School, Carrollton, TX.
Topics: Places
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
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Zora Neale Hurston was an anthropologists folklorist and writer. She was born in Eatonville, Florida on January 7, 1891. Zora’s parents were John Hurston and Lucy Potts Hurston. She obtained her formal education from Morgan Academy, Howard Prep School, Howard University and Barnard College.
Zora greatest achievement was being apart of the great black literary movement of the 1920’s and 1930’s, the Harlem Renaissance. Some of Zora’s literary works are:
- Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934)
- Mules and Men (1935)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
- Tell My Horse (1938)
- Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)