Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California. The other were multiracial children from the American South who were born on plantations to enslaved black women and were fathered by white slave holders. These white men wanted their enslaved mixed-race children to receive an education, and sent their children north to WU to obtain one. The fathers paid for the educations that were denied their children in the South. The university awarded its first diplomas in 1857, and by 1860 the private university had more than 200 students.
WU's faculty was predominantly white when it opened, and that continued to be the case until the late 1870s when a shift towards a predominantly black faculty occurred. It did however, embrace both men and women on the faculty since its inception with Gaddis and his wife splitting the teaching work load between them in the school's first year. They were succeeded by Mary J. Allen, and James K. Parker and his wife Maggie Baker. Most of the teaching staff in the early years of WU were graduates of Oberlin …
ACT Composite 25th %
15
ACT Composite 50th %
18
ACT Composite 75th %
21
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