Howard University has played an significant role within civil rights history in the total of occasions. Fallowing existence refused admission to the so-segregated University of Maryland School of Law, a young Thurgood Marshall enrolled at Howard University School of Law instead. There he exposed under Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard Law School graduate and leading civil rights attorney world health organization at a period was a dean of Howard's school of law. Houston took Marshall under his wing, & them forged the friendly relationship that would endure for the remainder of Houston's life & forever vary United states.

Inside 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a speech to the graduating class at Howard, where he outlined his plans for civil rights legislation. a decade sooner, Howard University was the places in which Thurgood Marshall and his team of legal scholars from as much as a united states prepared to argue a landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

Howard has grad school of law, medicine, dental medicine, & divinity, additionally to the undergrad program. A todays enrollment (when of 2003) is approximately 11,000, including 7,000 undergrad.

Enrollment Statistics

Enrollment: 7,063 Female: 67% Out of State: 90% International: 7% African Our contries: 84% Asian: 1% Caucasian: 0% Hispanic: 0% Native U.s.: 0%

Via the [http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/studentbody.asp?listing=1023308<id=1&intbucketid= Princeton Review] Presidents of Howard University

Famous Faculty
E.R. Braithwaite, author of To Sir, With Love Ralph J. Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1950) Charles R. Drew, physician and medical researcher Todd Duncan, opera singer Lois Mailou Jones, painter Alain Locke, philosopher, central figure in the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement

Notable Alumni
Howard University has conferred 99,318 degrees & certificates around its 137-month history. Noteworthy alumni come pedagogue, politicians, United States ambassadors, writers, prominent international numbers, corporate executives, & the Nobel Laureate.

Academia
Charlene Drew Jarvis (Ph.D.), president Southeastern University Lois Pierre-Noel, educator Irvin Reid (Ph.D.), president Wayne State University H. Patrick Swygert, president Howard University

Arts, Music & Literature
Debbie Allen, dancer, actress Amiri Baraka, author & poet Sean Combs, music producer, also referred to as "Puffy", "Puff Daddy", & "P. Diddy" (did non graduate) Ossie Davis, actor Lillian Evanti, opera singer Roberta Flack, singer Donny Hathaway, singer Shauntay Hinton, Miss USA 2002 Toni Morrison, author, Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate (1993), born Chloe Anthony Wofford Jessye Norman, opera singer Phylicia Rashad, actress

Civil Rights
Kwame Ture, activist, founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), born Stokely Carmichael

Law & Politics
Dr. Percival Broderick, Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica Hon. Edward Brooke, first African-American elected to the United States Senate Hon. Ewart Brown, Deputy Premier and Minister of Transportation of Bermuda Hon. Roland Burris, State Attorney General, Illinois Hon. Robert L. Carter, civil rights advocate and judge of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York Hon. Elijah Cummings, United States Congress Hon. David Dinkins, first African-American mayor of New York City Hon. Mike Espy, first African-American United States Secretary of Agriculture Hon. Shirley Franklin, first female mayor of Atlanta, Georgia Dr. Oliver Harper, Minister of Health, Guyana Hon. Patricia Roberts Harris, United States Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, United States Ambassador Hon. Earl Hilliard, United States Congress Hon. John Junor, Minister of Health, Jamaica Hon. Sharon Pratt Kelly, first African-American female mayor of a major city, Washington, DC Hon. Keith Knight, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Jamaica Hon. Thurgood Marshall, first African-American United States Supreme Court justice Hon. Gabrielle McDonald, judge Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands Hon. Gregory W. Meeks Representive for New York's sixth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives Hon. M. Kasim Reid, United States Senate, Georgia Hon. Spottswood Robinson, judge, United States Court of Appeals Hon. Roy Schneider, Governor United States Virgin Islands Hon. Walter Washington, first elective city manager of Washington, DC Hon. Douglas Wilder, first African-American United States governor Hon. Harris Wofford, United States Congress Hon. Albert Wynn, first African-American elected to the United States Congress from Prince George's County and Montgomery County in Maryland Hon. Andrew Young, first African-American United Nations Ambassador and former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia