Charles Young collection, 1900-1998.

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Charles Young collection, 1900-1998.

Flier for commemorative program (1994); book entitled "Dictionnaire de l'Administration Haitienne par Hannibal Price" (ca. 1906); class record of Young's class; Founders Day souvenir program (from Wilberforce?); photocopy of sheet music, "There's a Service Flag in the Window", words and music by Young; and news clippings about Young (1900, 1964-1998).

0.5 linear ft.

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Wilberforce University

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Wilberforce University has its beginnings in a 28 Sept. 1853 meeting, during which the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church agreed to fund a coeducational college for African-American people of the state to be called Ohio African University and to be located in Tawas Springs, Ohio. Chartered as Wilberforce University in 1856, enrollment reached 207 people, and second year collegiate instruction was offered. Because of financial difficulties due to the Civil War (1861-1865), th...

Price, Hannibal, -1893

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Young, Charles, 1864-1922

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Col. Charles Young, second Black graduate of West Point (1889); served in various cavalry and infantry units in the U.S. Army; professor of Military Science and Tactics, Wilberforce University; served as military attacheĢ to Haiti (1904); and advisor to Liberian government (1919-1921). From the description of Charles Young collection, 1900-1998. (Wilberforce University). WorldCat record id: 70978991 ...