Howard University, known as the Mecca, is one of the most prestigious HBCUs in the country. Charted in 1867 and named for the first administrator of the Freedmen's Bureau, General Oliver Otis Howard, Howard University has played a outsized role in the social, political, cultural, economic and racial discourse of the United States. The fact that U.S. Presidents, for over one hundred years, have either visited the campus or spoken at its commencements speaks to Howard's importance as a national and international leader in higher education.
Calvin Coolidge https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-howard-university-the-progress-people 1924
Herbert Hoover https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/commencement-address-howard-university-0 1932
Franklin D Roosevelt https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-dedication-the-new-chemistry-building-howard-university-washington-dc 1936
Harry Truman https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/169/commencement-address-howard-university 1952
John Kennedy https://dh.howard.edu/images/81/ 1960
Lyndon B Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcfAuodA2x8 1965
Ronald Regan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDEpGBtf99Y 1982
Barack Obama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K4MctEmkmI 2016
Joseph Biden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxqYIl3eP0M 2023
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