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Wilberforce College Collection
Description: White Methodists established Wilberforce College in Ohio in 1856. During the 1860s, the African Methodist Episcopal Church acquired Wilberforce and opened its doors to African Americans, the first institution of higher education in the United States established specifically for African American students. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04056
Subjects: Wilberforce (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Historical Black Colleges and Universities
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)