Dillard University is a private, historically black liberal arts college in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 1930 incorporating earlier institutions that went back to 1869, it is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church.
The campus is near Gentilly Boulevard and the London Avenue Canal, established in the 1930s.
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