Lulu Johnson (historian)
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Lulu Merle Johnson was an American historian and university administrator. She was the second African-American woman to earn a PhD in history in the United States, and the first to do so in the state
Lulu Johnson (left) with members of her Sunday School class, Gravity, Iowa, ca. 1920
Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African A
Lulu Johnson (historian)
…in the history PhD program, and was not allowed to use the university swimming pool at the same time as whites. Johnson went on to teach history at historically black colleges such as Florida A&M University, and West Virginia State College, before she joined the faculty of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania in 1952. There she…
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania was founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, making it the oldest HBCU in the nation.
President George H. W. Bush signs a new Executive Order on historically Black colleges and universities in the White House Rose Garden, April 1989.
North Carolina A&T State University is the nation's largest HBCU by enrollment.