jbrob
Official BDF member
Posts: 1,638
|
Post by jbrob on Jun 17, 2024 18:20:54 GMT -5
Doc Reveals The New Haven HBCU That Could Have Been On Wednesday night at the New Haven Museum, New Haveners had a chance to learn, together, about an uncomfortable truth: that, in 1831, New Haven’s white community leaders overwhelming rejected a serious proposal to found what would have been the first U.S. Black college, on the land where the interchange of I‑95 and I‑91 now exists. www.newhavenindependent.org/article/what_could_have_been_new_haven_museum
|
|
oleschoolaggie
Official BDF member
2009 Poster of the Year, 2009 Most Knowledgeable Poster
Posts: 24,676
|
Post by oleschoolaggie on Jun 18, 2024 17:18:06 GMT -5
wow, there are no hbcu's in that part of the country. would've been interesting to find out if it would've survived at a location that's so far away from most other hbcu's...
|
|