Complex sentence: White also studied at Whitin Normal School, established after the war in Lumberton, North Carolina, before entering Howard University, a historically black college, in Washington, D.C. in 1874.
Split into simpler sentences: White also studied at Whitin Normal School, established after the war in Lumberton, North Carolina. He entered Howard University, a historically black college, in Washington, D.C. in 1874.