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Cooper, Chuck  

Jane Brodsky Fitzpatrick

basketball player, was born Charles Henry Cooper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the youngest of five children of Daniel Webster Cooper, a mailman, and Emma Caroline Brown, a schoolteacher.

Cooper played basketball at Westinghouse High School in segregated East Pittsburgh. After graduating in February 1944, Cooper attended West Virginia State College, a historically black institution. He played basketball from 1944 to 1945, until he was drafted into the U.S. Navy. He served from July 1945 to October 1946.

Upon leaving the Navy, Cooper attended Duquesne University in Pittsburgh on the GI Bill and graduated in 1950 with a B.S. in Education. Although Duquesne was a predominantly white university, it was an early leader in the recruitment of black athletes. Cooper made the basketball team, The Dukes, when only a freshman. He was their first black starter and an All-American. As captain in 1949–1950 he led ...

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Johnson, Campbell Carrington  

Charlotte S. Price

Campbell Carrington Johnson was born in Washington, D.C., on September 30, 1895, the son of clergyman William Henry and Ellen Berry (Lee) Johnson. His father served at different periods as pastor of Israel Baptist Church in Washington and Beulah and Liberty Baptist churches in Alexandria, Virginia. The young Johnson received his education in those cities. Following his graduation from Washington's M Street High School in 1913, he worked at various jobs to earn college tuition, enrolling in Howard University, Washington, D.C., in the fall of that year. When he was forced by lack of funds to withdraw before the school year was over, Johnson returned to work, but he reentered Howard in 1915. World War I (1914–1919) interrupted his education once again in 1917 He volunteered and entered the Officers Training Corps at Fort Des Moines Iowa receiving his commission as ...

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Washington, Forrester  

Laura Crkovski

educator and activist. Forrester B. Washington was born in about 1888 in Salem, Massachusetts. He attended many universities, including Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Tufts University—where he was the first African American to graduate, in 1909—and Harvard University, where he undertook graduate studies. He held a number of leadership positions in which he advocated for the rights of African American citizens and the responsibilities of the government.

In 1916 Washington was sent to Detroit Michigan to establish the city s chapter of the Urban League for which his background in social work was indispensable The Urban League s mission was to help people of color reach their full potentials and to help those migrating from rural areas acclimate to life in the city Washington helped the league organize in the areas of recreation education health services and welfare He even brought in housekeeping training programs to teach ...

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Washington, Forrester Blanchard  

Frederica Harrison Barrow

social work educator, researcher, and social activist, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the first of four children of Lucy August Wylly, originally from Darien, Georgia, and John William Washington, an artist and professional penman who also became a postal clerk in Boston after he moved his family there. Lucy was the daughter of a slave and her white owner, who sent her to Boston for her education. Washington graduated from South Boston High School in 1905 and from Tufts College in 1909. He is believed to have been Tufts' first African American graduate. Briefly he taught French at Howard University before resuming his studies. From 1912 to 1914 he pursued an economics degree at Harvard University and then attended Columbia University, where he graduated in 1917 with a master s degree in Social Economy While at Columbia he also completed training supported by ...