Howard University
WHERE: 2400 Sixth Street, NW, Washington D.C.
WHEN: Tours arranged year-round
WHAT: College Tour
Howard University is named for its founder, Oliver Otis Howard, and was established in 1867 as an alternative school for African American college students. This historic university is a great place for student groups to experience the history of African American college students and to look toward their own future. When Howard University first opened, and still to this
day, it is a private, non-sectarian school, meaning a college where both men and women of any race may attend.
This University features Graduate programs in Pharmacy, Law, Medicine, Dentistry and Divinity. This college has played a very important role in American history. Some of its more famous alumni include, Alaine Locke, who was the first African American Rhodes Scholar, and Thurgood Marshall, a member of the legal team for the case, “Brown vs. The Board of Education”.
Other Washington DC Attractions: African American Civil War Museum and Memorial | Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture | Arlington National Cem. | Capitol Hill | FDR Memorial | Frederick Douglass National Historic Site | Howard University | Illuminations Tour | International Spy Museum | Jefferson Memorial | Korean War Memorial | Lincoln Memorial | Lincoln Park Washington DC | Martin Luther King Memorial Library | Mary McLeod Bethune House | National Cryptologic Museum | National Law Enforcement Memorial | National Law Enforcement Museum | National Museum of Crime & Punishment | Smithsonian Air & Space | Smithsonian African Art | Smithsonian American Art | Smithsonian Mus. of History | Smithsonian Museums on the National Mall | Smithsonian Native American | The Pentagon | The Supreme Court | U.S. Holocaust Memorial Mus. | U.S. Marine Corps Memorial | U.S. Naval Observatory | Vietnam War Memorial | Washington Monument | White House Tours | White House Visitors Center | White House Photo Op
