Education

William Hansberry

*William Hansberry was born on this date in 1894. He was an African American educator and scholar.

The Hygienic School
Class of 1910

*The opening of the Hygienic School in 1880 is celebrated on this date. This was a school for Black opened during American Reconstruction.

Started in Steelton, Pennsylvania the Hygienic School received its name from its location on Hygienic Hill, at Bailey Street between Adams and Ridge Streets. Steelton newspaper editor Peter Sullivan Blackwell conceived of the school as a way to provide a quality education for the African American community's children and give employment for Black schoolteachers, who could not teach in white schools.

*This date in1910 celebrates the first classes commencing at North Carolina Central University (NCCU).

Noyes Academy (replica)

*On this date in 1835, we celebrate the Noyes Academy in New Hampshire. In March of that year, twenty-eight whites and fourteen blacks commenced classes at newly established Noyes Academy.

William Julius Wilson

*William Julius Wilson was born on this date in 1935. He is an African American educator and sociologist.

From Derry Township, Pa., Wilson was educated at Wilberforce University (B.A., 1958) and Bowling Green State University (M.A., 1961) in Ohio, as well as at Washington State University (Ph.D., 1966). He joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) as an assistant professor of sociology in 1965. In 1972 he moved to the University of Chicago. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard.