Kamala Harris: She will spend election night at the university she studied at

The Democratic candidate attended Howard University and was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha fraternity.

At the university he studied, the Howard in Washington will spend the night of the elections Kamala Harris and preparations to cover the evening are feverish. Her presence there is full of symbolism – this educational institution is attended by the African-American elite, and there, tomorrow, Tuesday, Harris may become the first woman and the first black president of the United States.

Dubbed “the black Harvard”, Howard University, located in Washington, has a central place in the personal history of the American vice president: after graduating from there in 1986, she has returned several times.

“Howard University is one of the most important chapters of my life,” “it all started there,” he said in 2019 during the 2020 presidential election campaign, speaking from the campus.

Howard University, which has about 11,000 students, consists of imposing buildings with red bricks and white columns.

The “Black Harvard”

The private university founded in 1867 by the US Congress shortly after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery throughout the country. It was named after Oliver Howard, a Northern general who was particularly involved in the education of former slaves.

After its establishment it became the most famous of the approximately 100 universities in which historically blacks attend and the majority of students are still African American or minority.

Great personalities have studied at this university, such as the Nobel Prize-winning black writer Toni Morrison.

Thurgood Marshall, an important lawyer in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the first African-American justice appointed to the US Supreme Court, also studied there.

Harris was inspired by him to study at Howard and pursue law.

Howard University — *Harris had gone to the university in mid-August to prepare for her debate with Trump, telling students, “One day you might be running for president of the United States.”*

As a student she was a member of the university’s debate team and took part in anti-apartheid protests in South Africa.

Besides, he had joined a fraternity, as students in American universities are wont to do.

Hers, Alpha Kappa Alpha, was founded in 1908 and includes tens of thousands of black women, an important network that Harris relied on during her campaign.