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  1. 2 days ago · Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan , it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States .

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  2. 5 days ago · Martin Luther King, Jr. (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the ...

  3. 1 day ago · Early life (1732–1752) Further information: Washington family and British America Ferry Farm, the Washington family residence on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia, where Washington spent much of his youth George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, [a] at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball ...

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  5. 3 days ago · Dorothy Height American civil rights and women’s rights activist, a widely respected and influential leader of organizations focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African American women. Reared in Rankin, Pa., Height graduated in 1933 from New York University.

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  6. 5 days ago · Langston Hughes (born February 1, 1902?, Joplin, Missouri, U.S.—died May 22, 1967, New York, New York) was an American writer who was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and made the African American experience the subject of his writings, which ranged from poetry and plays to novels and newspaper columns.

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  7. 1 day ago · Wesleyan University. / 41.5556; -72.6558. Wesleyan University ( / ˈwɛsliən / ⓘ WESS-lee-ən) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1831 as a men's college under the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown.

  8. 5 days ago · Centered at New York University’s Brooklyn engineering location and involving faculty and students throughout the entire NYU community, NYU WIRELESS offers its industrial-affiliate sponsors, faculty members, and students a world-class research environment that is creating the fundamental theories and techniques for next-generation mass ...

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