Student and alumni records, 1870-1987.

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Student and alumni records, 1870-1987.

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Materials consist of card files, correspondence, Alumni Association minutes, news clippings, pamphlets, graduate list (1870-1987), annual alumni reports, alumni chapter reports, and miscellaneous items.

0.5 linear ft.

Shaw University, James E. Cheek Learning Resources Center

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Shaw University, James E. Cheek Learning Resources Center

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Shaw University

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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. From the description of Commencement ...