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[Black History] A Brief History of Morgan State University
Founded in 1867 as the Centenary Biblical Institute by the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the institution’s original mission was to train young men in ministry. The school was renamed Morgan College in 1890 in honor of the Reverend Lyttleton Morgan.
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[Black History] A Brief History of Grambling State University
Grambling State University opened on November 1, 1901 as the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School. In 1946, the school became Grambling College, named after P.G. Grambling, the white sawmill owner who had donated the parcel of land where the school was constructed.
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[Black History] A Brief History of North Carolina A&T State University
N.C. A&T was established as the A. and M. College for the “Colored Race” by an act of the General Assembly of North Carolina ratified March 9, 1891.
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[Black History] A Brief History of Spelman College
On April 11, 1881, Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles, two friends opened a school in the basement of Atlanta’s Friendship Baptist Church with $100.
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[Black History] A Brief History of Southern University
Southern University and A&M College had its beginning in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1880 when a group of Black politicians, led by former U.S. Senator P.B.S. Pinchback, T.T. Allain, and Henry Demas petitioned the State Constitutional Convention to establish a school of higher learning for “colored” people.
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[Black History] A Brief History of Tennessee State University
Through successive stages, TSU has developed from a normal school for Negroes to its current status as a national university with students from 42 states and 45 countries. The present-day Tennessee State University exists as a result of the merger on July 1, 1979, of Tennessee State University and the former University of Tennessee at…
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[Black History] A Brief History of Hampton University
“The thing to be done was clear: to train selected Negro youth who should go out and teach and lead their people first by example, by getting land and homes; to give them not a dollar that they could earn for themselves; to teach respect for labor, to replace stupid drudgery with skilled hands, and…
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[Black History] A Brief History of Florida A & M University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University was founded as the State Normal College for Colored Students, and on October 3, 1887, it began classes with fifteen students and two instructors. Today, FAMU, as it has become affectionately known, is the premiere school among historically black colleges and universities.