Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio   Save
Works Progress Administration, Ohio Guide Photographs
Description: This image shows Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio. In 1856, the Methodist Episcopal Church established Wilberforce University near Xenia, Ohio, to provide African Americans access to a college education. The university was the first private black college in the United States. Its founders named the institution after William Wilberforce, a prominent eighteenth-century abolitionist. A number of African-American Ohioans attended the school during its early years. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06412
Subjects: African Americans--Ohio; Wilberforce University; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)