The University of Missouri was founded in Columbia, Missouri, in 1839.
Between 1884 and 1946, veterinary medicine education went through five phases on campus: a course in veterinary science, a department of veterinary science, a school of veterinary medicine in the division of agricultural sciences, a school of veterinary medicine as a separate division and, finally, a College of Veterinary Medicine.
Officially opened in 1946, the College of Veterinary Medicine began to offer DVM degrees in order to provide World War II veterans with educational opportunities. However, it was not until 1970 that a Black student, Abubakar Lamorde, earned his DVM from the college--nearly twenty years after the first woman earned her DVM from the college.
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