AJC Sepia HBCU of the Week: Cheyney University - Notable Graduates

AJC Sepia HBCU of the Week: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Octavius Catto - Class of 1858
Rebecca J. Cole - Class of 1863
Joseph E. Lee - circa early 1860s
Julian Abele - Class of 1898
Bayard Rustin
Marcus Foster - Class of '47
Audrey F. Bronson - Class of '58
Joseph M. Segars - Class of '61
Gladys Styles Johnston - Class of '63
Jim Vance - Class of '64
Ed Bradley - Class of '64
Jim Ellis - Class of '72
Ronald S. Coleman - Class of '73
Robert Bogle - Class of '73
Thaddeus Kirkland - Class of '93
Robert Traynham - Class of '96
Pedro Rivera - Class of '01
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Founded in 1837 as the African Institute, before becoming the Institute for Colored Youth, the school that is now know as Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, has been educating black men and women for close to 200 years as the nation's oldest black institution of higher education. Since it started, the school has graduated more than 30,000 students. Here are some of their brightest.