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Frelinghuysen University (Washington, D.C.)


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    • Frelinghuysen university, Washington, D.C.
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      • Frelinghuysen university, Washington, D.C.
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      • found: Courses of study, 19--(hdg.: Frelinghuysen university, Washington, D.C.)
      • found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Howard Univ.) for Anna J. Cooper papers, 1881-1958(Frelinghuysen University, Washington, D.C.; coll. contains material relating to the university, of which Cooper was pres. from 1930-1941)
      • found: LC man. auth. cd.(hdg.: Frelinghuysen university, Washington, D.C.; the Board of directors of the Interdenominational University of Washington, D.C. [no publs. in LC database] ... on Feb. 22, 1917 voted to rename their institution the Frelinghuysen University)
      • found: DCist WWW, July 7, 2011(Black educators Jesse and Rosetta Lawson founded Frelinghuysen University, originally located at 2011 Vermont Ave., and then located at 1800 Vermont Ave., in 1906 to provide social services, religious training, and educational programs for black working-class adults. The university was named after New Jersey Senator Frederick Frelinghuysen who had worked to promote civil rights during Reconstruction. Before the university purchased 1800 Vermont Ave. (formerly the home of Edwin P. Goodwin, an insurance agent) they operated the school out of private homes and businesses around the city. The university only used the house for 6 years, from 1921 to 1927, as classrooms. They then operated out of a larger house at 601 M St. NW, and then the home of Anna Cooper at 201 T St., NW. The university had accreditation and gave degrees to students from 1927 until 1937. Unfortunately it lost its accreditation and then lost a lot of support. In 1940 the university became the Frelinghuysen Group of Schools for Colored Working People [no publs. in LC database] under Anna Cooper. The institution dissolved in the late 1950s)
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      • 2011-07-07: new
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