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February 23, 2015 at 4:19 pm

Black History Month: ‘OUr Black History Fun Facts’

The African American Studies Department is partnering with the Black Graduate Student Association on a series of coffee cup stickers in the Baker Center Front Room.

https://www.ohio-forum.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Black-History-Coffee-Sleeves-graphicThe second one celebrates Black History Month with “OUr Black History Fun Facts:

  • 1833: African-American James Roye begins attending Ohio University. Roye is elected president of Liberia in 1870 and holds the distinction of being the only Ohioan to serve as president of a foreign country.
  • 1927: Construction begins on the Alumni Memorial Auditorium. It would later be renamed Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium to honor the first African-American male and female graduates of Ohio University.

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