By the end of the war more than 186,000 black soldiers had joined the Union army; 93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states. Black soldiers faced discrimination as well as segregation.
List of colleges and universities near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There are 59 colleges within 50 miles of Pittsburgh. Located in Pennsylvania with a population of 305,704, the closest colleges are ranked by distance from Pittsburgh. The nearest college is Bradford School at a distance of 1.5 miles from Pittsburgh center.
There are two major daily newspapers in Pittsburgh: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Weekly papers in the region include the Pittsburgh Business Times, Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh Catholic, The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh, The New People, and the New Pittsburgh Courier. month later, Forbes named Pittsburgh the 7th best place to raise a family. Pittsburgh was ranked the 4th best city for working mothers by Forbes in 2010 and the city was ranked as one of the best for entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur. Forbes named Pittsburgh, in an 8-way tie, the world's 10th cleanest city for 2007.