print email comment close Oberlin and the Struggle for Black Freedom URL: http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/BlackHistoryMonth/blackhist.html Description: Collection of material about the struggle for black freedom in Oberlin, Ohio, and the education of African American students at Oberlin College. (Oberlin was the first college in the United States to regularly admit African American students.) Topics include the 1835 constitution of the Oberlin Anti-Slavery Society, the Underground Railroad, and Martin Luther King's 1965 commencement address. From the Electronic Oberlin Group, with images from the Oberlin College Archives. Publisher: Electronic Oberlin Group LII Database Information: Record 27450 created by Maria Brandt on 12/09/2008 Last modification on 01/29/2009 Published: 01/29/2009   LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27450