Census Bureau Black History Month Feature for Thursday, February 19.WASHINGTON Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. -- Profile America for the 19th day of Black History Month. As president of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island  “Providence” redirects here. For other uses, see Providence (disambiguation). Providence is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. , Ruth Simmons is the first African-American to lead an Ivy League Ivy League Group of eight universities in the northeastern U.S., high in academic and social prestige, that are members of an athletic conference for intercollegiate gridiron football dating to the 1870s. school. Daughter of a sharecropper, Simmons earned her Ph.D. at Harvard, became a dean at Princeton, and then president of Smith College. She was selected as president of Brown in 2001, and has been named by Time magazine as the best college president in the nation, and was rated by Newsweek as its Woman of the Year. Surveys show she is highly regarded by the student body at Brown. About one-in-five African-American adults have at least a bachelor's degree and 1.2 million hold advanced degrees. This special edition of Profile America for Black History Month is a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau Noun 1. Census Bureau - the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States Bureau of the Census . [TABLE OMITTED] Profile America is produced by the Public Information Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at http://www.census.gov (look under the "Newsroom" button). |
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