Howard University

Howard University is a historically black university in Washington, D.C. It was established by a congressional charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from the Freedmen's Bureau.

Famous Faculty

• E.R. Braithwaite, author of To Sir, With Love
• Ralph J. Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize (1950)
• Charles R. Drew, physician and medical researcher
• Todd Duncan, opera singer
• Lois Mailou Jones, painter
• Alain Locke, philosopher, central figure in the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement