FREEDMEN UNIVERSITY 

Power is The Ability to Define Phenomena and Make it Act in a Desired Manner. - Huey P. Newton

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Paschal Beverly Randolph 

was an African-American medical doctor, occultist, spiritualist, trance medium, and writer. 

According to A. E. Waite, he established the earliest known Rosicrucian order in the United States. 

He may have also been the first to introduce the principles of erotic alchemy to North America.

Mary McLeod Bethune 

was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. 

Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and proceeded to establish the Aframerican Women's Journal, which was the flagship journal of the organization.

Kelly Miller 

was an African-American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century. 

He was known as "the Bard of the Potomac".

Fanny Jackson Coppin 

was an American educator, missionary and lifelong advocate for female higher education. 

One of the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College, she served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and became the first African American school superintendent in the United States.

Edmund Wyatt Gordon 

is an American psychologist and professor. 

Gordon was recognized as a preeminent scholar of African-American studies when he was awarded the 2011 John Hope Franklin Award from Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education.

Inez Beverly Prosser 

was a psychologist, teacher and school administrator. 

She is often regarded as the first African-American female to receive a Ph.D in psychology. 

Her work was very influential in the hallmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling.

Charles Hamilton Houston 

was an American lawyer. 

He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. 

A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants. 

He earned the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow".

Charlotte Louise Bridges Grimké 

was an African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator. She grew up in a prominent abolitionist family in Philadelphia. 

She taught school for years, including during the Civil War, to freedmen in South Carolina.

Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II

was an American minister and evangelist based in New York City. 

He was known for the slogan "You can't lose with the stuff I use!" 

Reverend Ike diverged from traditional Christian theology and taught what he called "Science of Living"