Trustees minutes [microform] : Richard Humphrey [i.e., Humphreys] Legacy, 1832-1838.

Institute for Colored Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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The Institute for Colored Youth was founded in 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It became the first high school for African-Americans in the United States, although there were schools that admitted African Americans preceding it. At the time, public policy and certain statutory provisions prohibited the education of blacks in various parts of the nation and slavery was entrenched across the south. It was followed by two other black institutions— Lincoln University in Pennsylvan...

Richard Humphreys Legacy.

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Minutes of the Quaker trustees of the bequest of Richard Humphreys (1750-1832), who left funds for the establishment of a school for blacks in Philadelphia; school was founded as Institute for Colored Youth. From the description of Trustees minutes [microform] : Richard Humphrey [i.e., Humphreys] Legacy, 1832-1838. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 43620193 ...

Humphreys, Richard, 1750-1832

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