Shaw University. Board of Trustees
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Shaw University. Board of Trustees
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Oldest historically black university in the South founded in 1865 as Raleigh Institute; renamed Shaw Collegiate Institute in 1870 in honor of benefactor, Elijah Shaw, of Wales, Mass.; in 1875 an act of the North Carolina General Assembly chartered the university as The Shaw University; originally founded to teach freedmen theology and Biblical interpretation, however within 15 years of its founding the institution began to broaden its curriculum.
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https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2003087696
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African American universities and colleges
African American universities and colleges
African Americans
Baptist universities and colleges
Baptist universities and colleges
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North Carolina--Raleigh
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