Re: Re: I got this off of another listserve today. . .
 

I've heard that twice in 42 years re Carol Channing thing several times before...so I would guess she's not exaggerating.

:eek: @ Carol Channing!!!!!!!!!!

Get out!!! I would have NEVER guessed! I may have to read her autobiography too.

I understand that she revealed this surprising bit of information (about her race) on Larry King as well sometime ago.

Thanks to Tom Joyner I learned something today
 

This was Tom Joyner's Little KNown Black Fact today. I did some digging and found out more to give us a better context.

Taken from here: http://www.indystar.com/articles/1/225541-2271-009.html

Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis, Indiana


Crispus Attucks through the years
February 27, 2005


Dec. 12, 1922: Despite opposition from black leaders, the Indianapolis Public School Board approves a plan to build a segregated high school for black students. There are about 800 black high school students in Indianapolis at the time, most of whom attend Tech, Manual or Shortridge.

1924: The Ku Klux Klan reaches the height of its political influence in the state and city. Klan-backed Ed Jackson is elected governor, and there are Klan-backed majorities in the state House and Senate. The Klan’s local power declines sharply beginning the next year, after Indiana Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson is convicted of second-degree murder.

1926: A year before the school opens, city leaders decide to name it for Thomas Jefferson. They drop the idea after objections by the black community, which says the school shouldn’t be named for a slaveholder. Instead, it’s named Crispus Attucks for a runaway slave who is believed to be the first American killed by British soldiers in the 1770 Boston Massacre, which helped precipitate the Revolutionary War.

Sept. 12, 1927: Crispus Attucks High School opens for 1,350 black students, many of whom are bused in from other districts. On the same day, the KKK holds a march Downtown. “Row after row of masked Klansmen marching slowly to the beat of muffled drums took an hour to pass,” The Star reported. (The events were not necessarily related; the march was likely in conjunction with a trial in which the Klan accused Mayor John L. Duvall of reneging on a campaign promise to give Klan members 85 percent of his appointments.)

1927: Indiana High School Athletic Association Commissioner Arthur Trester denies Attucks membership, ruling that, because it does not include white students, it is not a public school.

1933: Attucks Principal Russell Lane persuades Trester to allow IHSAA member teams to play regular-season basketball games against the school. Most city schools aren’t interested, however, forcing Attucks to travel to Ellettsville, Connersville and other small Indiana towns.

1938: Lockefield Gardens, a federally funded housing project, opens with 748 apartments on 24 acres near Attucks. The basketball court there, nicknamed the Dustbowl, soon becomes the site of the most competitive basketball games in the city.

1942: Oscar Robertson moves to Indianapolis with his mother and two brothers from a small farm near Bellsburg, Tenn., joining his father, Bailey, who had come earlier in search of work.

1942: The IHSAA agrees to admit “colored” and parochial schools after Robert L. Brokenburr, Indiana’s first black state senator, proposes a bill banning segregation in IHSAA tournaments. The bill is approved by the Senate but defeated in the House. The IHSAA bows to the resulting pressure, and a year later Attucks plays in the tournament for the first time.

May 22, 1947: Indianapolis Police Chief Howard Sanders does not allow a “mixed” dance to be held in the city, citing his “personal policy” and “better judgment.” Eight days later, White Castle is one of the first Indianapolis restaurants to lift its “Jim Crow” policy, announcing that blacks will be allowed inside.

1949: The Indiana General Assembly passes a desegregation law allowing black students to enroll in their neighborhood schools. Within a few days, the IPS Board passes a resolution to end segregation, but the school system later is found to have perpetuated the practice.

1950: Ray Crowe, who grew up on a small farm in Johnson County, becomes head basketball coach at Attucks after Fitzhugh Lyons retires. Crowe brings in the players he developed while coaching at School 17, along with a more aggressive style of play.

1951: In what Star sportswriter Bob Collins called “the most dramatic and exciting” game in the history of the state tournament, Attucks defeats Anderson, 81-80, in a regional final on a last-second shot by Bailey “Flap” Robertson, Oscar’s older brother. The victory sets off a huge celebration along Indiana Avenue, the social heart of the black section of the city. The Tigers advance to the Final Four for the first time before losing a semifinal game to Evansville Reitz.

1952: Attucks loses to Tech, led by Joe Sexson, The Star’s Indiana Mr. Basketball, in the sectional round.

1953: Hurt by a controversial late-game foul call on Hallie Bryant, Attucks loses to Shelbyville in the semistate round of the tournament. Bryant is named The Star’s Indiana Mr. Basketball and goes on to play for the Harlem Globetrotters.

1954: The Tigers advance to the semistate round again but lose to Milan, despite 22 points by sophomore Oscar Robertson. Milan goes on to win the state title, which will be celebrated in the movie “Hoosiers.”

1955: Attucks wins the state basketball title, beating Gary Roosevelt, 97-74, to become the first all-black school in the country to win a state title in an integrated sport, and the first Indianapolis school to win the state basketball title. Eight Tigers score; Oscar Robertson leads with 30.

1956: Attucks defends its state title, beating Lafayette Jefferson, 79-57, to become the state’s first undefeated champion. Oscar Robertson scores 39 points in his final game for Attucks and is named The Star’s Indiana Mr. Basketball. Crowe is not voted Coach of the Year by the state’s sportswriters.

1957: Bob Jewell, a star of the 1951 Attucks team, begins work for Eli Lilly and Co. as an associate bacteriologist, the first black scientist on the staff. Two other black scientists are hired soon after.

1957: Crowe retires as coach after losing to undefeated South Bend Central in the state championship game. He becomes Attucks’ athletic director and hires Bill Garrett, the first black basketball player at Indiana University, as his replacement.

1959: Attucks wins its third state basketball title in five years. The school never returns to the Final Four.

1960: Oscar Robertson wins an Olympic gold medal as a co-captain of the U.S. basketball team in Rome. He goes on to win an NBA title with the Milwaukee Bucks in 1971 and to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980.

1966: Crowe is elected to the state legislature. He later becomes chairman of the House Education Committee.

1969: Several Attucks teachers are reassigned to other city high schools, stemming from an agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and Indianapolis Public Schools to integrate the district.

1971: The first white students attend Attucks.

Mid-1970s: Construction of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus eliminates much of the neighborhood that formerly housed Attucks students.

1986: The School Board changes Attucks to a junior high school, despite an outcry from the black community. More than 1,000 people, including former world boxing champion Marvin Johnson, pack the school auditorium to protest the plan. “Crispus Attucks has become a legend,” Johnson says. “Don’t let the legend die.” In 1993, it becomes a middle school, which it remains.

1989: Attucks is added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Dec. 20, 2003: Crowe dies at age 88. His memorial service, a week later at Attucks Middle School, is attended by a large, racially mixed crowd that includes many of his former players. The service includes a drive around Monument Circle in his honor.

SOURCES: The Indianapolis Star; Star library staff; The Indianapolis Times; The Indianapolis Recorder; “But They Can’t Beat Us,” by Randy Roberts; “The Ray Crowe Story,” by Kerry D. Marshall; “The Big O,” by Oscar Robertson; “Hail to the Green, Hail to the Gold,” by Stanley Warren; “Hoosier Hysteria,” by Herb Schwomeyer; Encyclopedia of Indianapolis; Black History News and Notes, Number 36, May 1989.

Ray Crowe

“The Ray Crowe Story,” 1992

“In creating Crispus Attucks High School, Indianapolis had hoped to remove black people — to segregate them — from the mainstream of city life. Yet this castoff school gave the city one of its most coveted awards — a state basketball championship.

“I was as unhappy as anyone when they closed the high school. Many of my fondest memories are associated with that school. But if you look at it another way, maybe the closing of Crispus Attucks marked the end of a sick social experiment.

“When we were fighting to keep it open, I couldn’t help but think of another citizen of the community, Archie Greathouse, who, believing that segregation was wrong, filed a lawsuit in 1923 to keep Attucks from being built. He failed in his efforts to stop the school from being opened just as we were failing to stop it from being closed. There’s a bitter irony, but I’ve always tried to stay positive. I try to look at that ending as a beginning. Maybe a lesson was learned. Maybe something good can come of it.”

Reading that timeline exposed me to a lot of other Black facts within the Crispus Attucks Story. :)
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Indianapolis Hall of Fame to Induct 1955 Crispus Attucks High School Championship Team

:cool: :D

HBCU beginnings
 

Hampton University, formerly known as Hampton Institute
http://www.hamptonu.edu/

Taken from: http://www.hamptonu.edu/about/heritage.htm

Hampton University has embraced the principles of "Education for life" and "learning by doing," since its founding in 1868 during the days of Reconstruction. Originally opening its doors as Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute to prepare promising young African-American men and women to lead and teach their newly-freed people, the University has continually sought to instill in its students the precepts of efficiency, character and service to society-standards that continue to remain both timeless and relevant.


Founded on the banks of the Virginia Peninsula by Brigadier General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the 29 year-old son of missionary parents, Hampton became an oasis of opportunity for the thousands of newly-freed people gathered behind Union lines. With the aid of the American Missionary Association, the school was established to train selected young men and women to "go out to teach and lead their people," and to build a viable industrial system on the strength of self-sufficiency, intelligent labor and solid moral character.

In 1878, Hampton established a formal education program for Native Americans, beginning the Institute's lasting commitment to serving a multicultural population. Hampton's historic Native American education program spanned more than forty years, with the last student graduating in 1923. Recent initiatives have attracted Native American students to renew their ties with Hampton.

In the early days, support for the Institute came from the Freedman's Bureau, Northern philanthropists and religious groups, with the first classroom building erected in 1870. The first baccalaureate degrees were awarded in 1922. Two years later, the school's name was changed to Hampton Institute, reflecting college-level accreditation. In 1984, Hampton's Board of Trustees formally adopted a university structure and changed the name to Hampton University, which today represents the unparalleled standard of excellence in American higher education.


Emancipation Oak

Hampton's proud past meets your promising future…
One day in 1863, the members of the Virginia Peninsula's black community gathered to hear a prayer answered. Ninety-eight feet in diameter, Emancipation Oak was the site of the first Southern reading of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, an act which accelerated the demand for African-American education. The peaceful shade of the oak served as the first classroom for newly freed men and women - eager for an education. Mrs. Mary Peake, daughter of a freed colored woman and a Frenchman, conducted the first lessons taught under the oak located on the University's campus.

The Emancipation oak is designated as one of the 10 Great Trees of the World by the National Geographic Society.


North Carolina A&T University
http://www.ncat.edu/

taken from Wikipedia.org:
The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T) was established as a “mechanic College” for the “Colored Race” by an act of the General Assembly of North Carolina ratified March 9, 1891. The act read in part: That the leading objective of the college shall be to teach practical agriculture and the mechanic arts and such learning as related thereto, not excluding academic and classical instruction.


The College operated in Raleigh (Shaw) until 1893 when it moved to the city of Greensboro, which donated $11,000 in cash and 14 acres (57,000 m²) of land for its campus. The original course of study of A&T included languages and literature, mathematics, business, agriculture and military science. Female students were a part of the college from 1893 until 1901, but were not enrolled again until 1928. In 1915, the name of the College became the Negro Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina by act of the NC General Assembly. In 1967, the name of the College was changed to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.


The presidents and chancellors of A&T have been Dr. John O. Crosby (1892-1896), Dr. James B. Dudley (1896-1925), Dr. Ferdinand D. Bluford (1925-1955), Dr. Warmoth T. Gibbs (1956-1960), Dr. Samuel D. Proctor (1960-1964), Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy (1964-1980), Dr. Cleon F. Thompson, Jr. (1980-1981), Dr. Edward B. Fort (1981-1999), Dr. James C. Renick, (1999-present).

NC A&T is a historically black college and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina System. The school colors are blue and gold. The school athletic teams are called the "Aggies". On the A&T seal are the words "mens et manus" (minds and hands), reflecting on A&T's early focus on agriculture and technical skills.



Well Known Alumni
Reverend Jesse Jackson

Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.

National Football League runningback Maurice Hicks

Astronaut Ronald McNair (who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986)

The Greensboro Four (sparked the Civil Rights movement throughout the south) The Greensboro Four were a group of four black college students, Jibreel Khazan, Franklin Eugene McCain, Joseph Alfred McNeil, and David Leinail Richmond, from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina that, in 1960, sat down at an all-white Woolworth's lunch counter, and refused to leave when they were denied service. Hundreds of others soon joined in this first sit-in, which lasted for several months. In company throughout the entire protest was their white best-friend Hal Sieber, who easily recalls the events. Such protests quickly spread across the South, ultimately leading to the desegregation of Woolworth's and other chains. The original Woolworth's counter and stools now sit in the Smithsonian Museum, but a Sit-In Museum is being planned for the old Woolworth's building where the event actually occurred.

US Congressman Edolphus Towns (NY)

Al Attles (NBA Legend - Golden State Warriors)

Major General Charles D. Bussey (retired)

Lou Donaldson (internationally known jazz musician)

Brig. Gen. Clara L. Adams-Ender (retired) (first black Army Nurse Corps officer to graduate from the U.S. Army War College)

Elvin Bethea (NFL Hall of Fame - Houston Oilers)

BTB87 ;)

My cousin, KS :)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...0px-Gso4-1.jpg
Greensboro four statue in front of Dudley Hall


Disclaimer: If any of this is incorrect, please just provide the correct information without being harsh. :) Just trying to enlighten and be enlightened. :D Also each day, 2 more HBCUs will be profiled. :)

Ms. C,

Girl, you done me proud! ;)

Another graduate is Joe Dudley (yes, THAT Dudley) of Dudley hair products. Don't remember what year he graduated, but for some reason, '62 sticks out (besides the fact that it was just a wonderful year! :)).

I can't tell you how moved I was the first time I saw the statue of the Greensboro Four. I saw it about 2 years ago after our homecoming game, and I just stood there and stared at it. I can't imagine what guts it took for these men to do what they did.

Thanks for posting this, and thanks for putting me in the "well-known alumni" list! :D.

AGGIE PRIDE !!!

"Dear A & T, dear A & T, a monument indeed. . . "

BTB87, my pleasure! The idea came to me out of the Pikes @ Howard thread. I realized how little I know about each HBCU. I have never been on A & T's campus but I saw the status today on Wikipedia and it moved me, so I can imagine how it moved you and others as well.


Also having spoken with my Soror who is a Hampton alum, she informed me that Wanda Sykes is also a Hampton alum. Of course, I knew about Booker T. Washington.:)

Texas Southern University & Alcorn State University
 

Texas Southern University

http://www.tsu.edu/

Texas Southern University is a historically black university in Houston, Texas, USA. The university was established on March 3, 1947 by the Texas Legislature and it was initially named Texas State University for Negroes. Prior becoming a state university, Texas Southern University was owned by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and had been known as Houston College for Negroes.

Texas Southern University's school colors are maroon and gray and the school nickname is the Tigers. Texas Southern sports teams participate in NCAA Division I-A (I-AA for football) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).

History
In February 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, an African American man, applied to the University of Texas Law School. He was denied admission because of his race, and subsequently filed suit. (See Sweatt v. Painter.) At the time, there was no “separate but equal” law school for African Americans, and the Texas trial court, instead of granting Sweatt a writ of mandamus, continued the case for six months allowing the state time to create a law school only for blacks. As a result, Texas Southern University was established under Senate Bill 140 by the Fiftieth Texas Legislature on March 3, 1947 as a state university to be located in Houston. Originally named Texas State University for Negroes, the school was established to serve African Americans in Texas and offer them fields of study comparable to that available to white Texans. The state took over the HISD-run Houston College for Negroes as a basis for the new university. At the time, Houston College had one permanent building, but, more importantly, an existing faculty, and students. The school was charged with teaching "pharmacy, dentistry, arts and sciences, journalism education, literature, law, medicine, and other professional courses," and further stipulated that "these courses shall be equivalent to those offered at other institutions of this type supported by the State of Texas." Despite the lofty language of Senate Bill 140, the the intent of the legislation, clearly, was to perpetuate the racial segregation of higher education in Texas.

Notable Alumni
Yolanda Adams, Grammy Award-winning gospel singer

Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in the U.S. House

Congressman Mickey Leland, U.S. House

Congressman Craig Washington, U.S. House

Michael Strahan, Defensive End for the New York Giants

Don Narcisse, Former Saskatchewan Roughriders Wide Receiver (1987-1999) / CFL Legend

Harris County Commissioner Sylvia R. Garcia

Lloyd Wells, first black full-time professional football scout (Kansas City Chiefs, American Football League)

President is Dr. Priscilla Slade, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha
http://www.tsu.edu/about/administrat...ce/welcome.asp



Alcorn State University

http://www.alcorn.edu/index.htm



History taken from http://www.alcorn.edu/about/history.htm


Alcorn State University was founded on the site originally occupied by Oakland College, a school for whites established by the Presbyterian Church.
Oakland College closed its doors at the beginning of the Civil War so that its students could answer the call to arms. Upon failing to reopen at the end of the war, the property was sold to the state of Mississippi and renamed Alcorn University in honor of James L. Alcorn in 1871, then governor of the state of Mississippi.

Hiram R. Revels resigned his seat in the United States Senate to become Alcorn's first president. The state legislature provided $50,000 in cash for ten successive years for the establishment and overall operations of the college. The state also granted Alcorn three-fifths of the proceeds earned from the sale of thirty thousand acres of land scrip for agricultural colleges. The land was sold for $188,928 with Alcorn receiving a share of $113,400. This money was to be used solely for the agricultural and mechanical components of the college. From its beginning, Alcorn State University was a land-grant college.

In 1878, the name Alcorn University was changed to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. The university's original 225 acres of land have grown to become a 1,700 acre campus. The goals for the college set by the Mississippi legislature clearly emphasized training rather than education. The school, like other black schools during these years, was less a college than a trade school.

At first the school was exclusively for black males but in 1895 women were admitted. Today, women outnumber men at the university eighteen hundred to twelve hundred.

In 1974 Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College became Alcorn State University. Governor William L. Waller signed House Bill 298 granting university status to Alcorn and the other state supported colleges. In truth, this law created a change of name rather than of purpose. Alcorn had already become a more diversified university. It provides an undergraduate education that enables students to continue their work in graduate and professional schools, engage in teaching, and enter other professions. It also provides graduate education to equip students for further training in specialized fields while they contribute to the advancement of knowledge through scholarly research and inquiry.

Alcorn began with eight faculty members in 1871. Today there are more than five hundred members of the faculty and staff. The student body has grown from 179 mostly local male students to more than 3,000 students from all over the world.

While early graduates of Alcorn had limited horizons, more recent alumni are successful doctors, lawyers, dentists, teachers, principals, administrators, managers, and entrepreneurs. Alcorn has had fifteen presidents with Dr. Clinton Bristow,Jr. becoming the sixteenth president in 1995. Of these, Dr. Walter Washington, who assumed the presidency in 1969, was the longest-tenured president in Alcorn's history.

Over the decades the college that once was a struggling institution has become one of the leading black universities in the nation. Alcorn State is now fully accredited with seven schools and degree programs in more than fifty areas including a nursing program. The facilities have increased from three historic buildings to approximately 80 modern structures with an approximate value of $71 million.


Notable Alumni
Donald Driver - American professional football wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League

Steve McNair - American professional football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League

Medgar Evers - NAACP's first field secretary

Michael Clarke Duncan - actor, The Green Mile

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FAMU and Morgan State
 

Florida A & M University
http://www.famu.edu

History taken from http://www.famu.edu/a&m.php?page=history (quite extensive but very informative)

History


Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, founded on October 3, 1887, as the State Normal College for ColoredStudents, began classes with fifteen students and two instructors. Its destiny - to become an institution of higher learning, striving toward even greater heights of academic excellence. Today, Florida A&M University is one of nine institutions in Florida 's State University System, and excellence - "excellence with caring" - remains its goal.

Leading the State Normal College through its infancy were two distinguished citizens and educators. They were Thomas DeSaille Tucker, an outstanding attorney from Pensacola who was selected as the college's first president, and Thomas Van Rennasaler Gibbs, a state representative from Duval County who was Tucker's top assistant. In 1891, the college received $7,500 under the Second Morrill Act for agricultural and mechanical arts education; thus, it became Florida's land grant institution for African-Americans. The college was moved from Copeland Street (now the site of Florida State University) to its present location, and its name was changed to the State Normal and Industrial College for Colored Students. It was at this new site that President Tucker initiated his plans for institutional growth and development.

In the 1900s, this young institution flourished under the leadership of Nathan B. Young. In 1905, management of the college was transferred from the Board of Education to the Board of Control. This event was significant because it officially designated the college as an institution of higher education. The name was changed in 1909 to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes (FAMC). The following year, with an enrollment of 317 students, the college awarded its first degrees. In spite of a setback caused by a tragic fire which destroyed Duval Hall (the main building which housed the library, administrative offices, cafeteria and other college agencies), progress was made when a gift of $10,000 was presented to the college by Andrew Carnegie for the erection of a new library facility-which held the distinction of being the only Carnegie Library located on a African-American land-grant college. President Young directed the growth of the college with limited resources and expectations, to a four-year degree-granting institution, offering the B.S. degree in education, science, home economics, agriculture, and mechanical arts.

Under the administration of John Robert Edward Lee, Sr., Florida A&M University acquired much of the physical and academic image it has today. Buildings were constructed; more land was purchased; more faculty was hired; courses were upgraded, and accreditation was received from several state agencies. In 1944, Florida A&M University had constructed 48 buildings, accumulated 396 acres of land, and had 812 students and 122 staff members. In 1949, under the guidance of William H. Gray, Jr., expansion, along with reorganization, continued; the college had obtained an Army ROTC unit, and student enrollment had grown to more 2,000.

Perhaps the greatest achievement under the presidency of Dr. George W. Gore, Jr., was the elevation of the school to university status. In 1953 the college's name was changed by legislative action from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Obtaining university status meant restructuring existing programs and designing new academic offerings to meet the demands of producing quality students at the professional and graduate levels. Between 1953 and 1968 the Schools of Pharmacy, Law, Graduate Studies, and Nursing were created.

During the years 1950-1968, the university experienced its most rapid growth. Twenty-three buildings were erected with construction and renovation costs totaling more that 14 million. These facilities included the Dairy Barn, Faculty Duplexes, Law Wing of Coleman Library; Gibbs, Tucker, and Truth Halls; Agriculture and Home Economics Building(Perry Page), Student Union Building, Demonstration School Building and cafeteria; Health and Physical Education Building, Music and Fine Arts Complex, High School Gymnasium, Stadium, and Health and Physical Education Building. The hospital was completed and operative. The university staff increased by more that 500. At this time, the four-quarter plan was implemented, and the school became the first Negro institution to become a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Enrollment increased to more than 3,500.

Notable alumni
Willie Galimore, former NFL player

Bob Hayes, Football Player, Olympic Gold Medalist

Earl Holmes, former National Football League player

Althea Gibson, Tennis Player

Kwame Kilpatrick, Mayor of Detroit

Soror T'Keyah Crystal Keymah, Actress :D

Common, Entertainer

Ken Riley, former National Football League player

John W. Thompson, Chief Executive Officer of Symantec Corp

SkeephistAKAte

2Discrete4U

Morgan State University
http://www.morgan.edu/

History
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. It subsequently broadened its mission to educate both men and women as teachers. The school was renamed Morgan College in 1890 in honor of the Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its Board of Trustees, who donated land to the college.

Morgan awarded its first baccalaureate degree to George F. McMechen in 1895. McMechen later obtained a law degree from Yale and eventually returned to Baltimore, where he became a civic leader and one of Morgan's strongest financial supporters. In 1915 the late Andrew Carnegie gave the school a conditional grant of $50,000 for the central academic building. The terms of the grant included the purchase of a new site for the College, payment of all outstanding obligations, and the construction of a building to be named after him. The College met the conditions and moved to its present site in northeast Baltimore in 1917. Carnegie Hall, the oldest original building on the present MSU campus, was erected two years later.

Morgan remained a private institution until 1939. That year, the state of Maryland purchased the school in response to a state study that determined that Maryland needed to provide more opportunities for its black citizens.

From its beginnings as a public campus, Morgan was open to students of all races. By the time it became a public campus, the College had become a relatively comprehensive institution. Until the mid-1960s, when the state's teachers colleges began their transition to liberal arts campuses, Morgan and the University of Maryland College Park were the only two public campuses in the state with comprehensive missions.

As Maryland's teachers colleges began to broaden their objective, Morgan and other like institutions, were placed into a state college system governed by a Board of Trustees. However, in 1975 the State Legislature designated Morgan as a university, gave it the authority to offer doctorates, and provided for it to once again have its own governing board.

In 1988 Maryland reorganized its higher education structure and strengthened its coordinating board, the Higher Education Commission. The campuses in the state college system became part of the University of Maryland System. Morgan and St. Mary's College of Maryland were the only public baccalaureate-granting institutions authorized to have their own governing boards. The legislation also strengthened Morgan's authority to offer advanced programs and designated the campus as Maryland's Public Urban University.

Notable Alumni
My friend, WL, an engineer and member of Omega Psi Phi :)
The founders of Iota Phi Theta

Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas
http://www.philander.edu/



http://www.philander.edu/history.aspx

Officially founded in 1877, Philander Smith College is the result of one of the early attempts to make education available to freedmen (former African-American slaves) west of the Mississippi River. The forerunner of the College was Walden Seminary, named in honor of Dr. J. M. Walden, one of the originators and the first Corresponding Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society. Miss Helen Perkins served as Principal of the institution during the early years.

In 1876, the General Conference of The Methodist Episcopal Church authorized the creation of an annual conference for Negro preachers in the State of Arkansas with the power to promote schools. The new body was named the Little Rock Annual Conference (later the Southwest Annual Conference). In 1877, this annual conference designated Walden Seminary as its official educational institution.

The Seminary was located at Eighth Street and Broadway in the Wesley Chapel Methodist Church. The first Conference Trustees of the new school, elected in 1878, were: Ministers I. G. Pollard, W. O. Emory, G. W. Sams, W. H. Crawford, A. J. Phillips, L. W. Elkins and Laymen A. L. Richmond, William La Porte and Frank Carland.

Philander Smith College has a rich Christian heritage. It has maintained a close relationship with the Church across the years. It acknowledges a definite obligation to The United Methodist Church. The College receives funding from The General Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministry of The United Methodist Church. It is also the only institution in Arkansas affiliated with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF).

Philander Smith College strives to instill the desire to serve in its faculty and students. This desire is at the core of its educational philosophy. Across the years, it has earned the designation as a "College of Service and Distinction."

from Wikipedia:
The school was renamed to Philander Smith College in 1882 in order to recognize the financial contributions of Adeline Smith, the widow of Philander Smith. The college was chartered as a four-year college in 1883 and conferred its first bachelor’s degree in 1888.

Notable Alumni:
Joycelyn Elders - former United States Surgeon General

Hubert Ausbie - former Harlem Globetrotters player and coach

Lottie Shackelford - former mayor of Little Rock

Current President of Philander Smith is Dr. Walter Kimbrough, member of Alpha Phi Alpha

DR. WALTER M. KIMBROUGH

At 38 years of age, Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough, the 12th president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas is the first college president from the hip-hop generation. He is presently the youngest HBCU president, and one of the youngest college presidents in the nation. Prior to Philander Smith College, he served in administrative capacities at Albany State University, Old Dominion University, Georgia State University and Emory University.


Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina
http://www.jcsu.edu/


http://www.jcsu.edu/news/quickfacts.htm

Founded and chartered as Biddle Memorial Institute in 1867. Renamed Johnson C. Smith University in 1923. Women first admitted in 1932. Joined the United Negro College Fund in 1944. Completed the historic "Vision Shared" $63.8 million dollar capital campaign drive in 1998.

Special Opportunities
JCSU is the only historically black college to become an IBM Thinkpad University. Service learning component combines academics and community service. Study abroad opportunities are available in Japan, Australia, Spain, Russia, morocco, Mexico, Ireland, Israel, Brazil. Extensive career development opportunities abound through co-op programs and internships with over 90 companies.

Spelman College

http://www.spelman.edu/

History Excerpt comes from http://www.spelman.edu/academics/cat...CollegeHistory

Spelman, one of the nation's most highly regarded colleges for women, was founded by Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles, two friends who were commissioned in 1879 by the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society to study the living conditions among the freedmen of the South. Appalled by the lack of educational opportunity for Black women, the missionaries returned to Boston determined to effect change. On April 11, 1881, they opened a school in the basement of Atlanta's Friendship Baptist Church with $100 provided by the congregation of the First Baptist Church of Medford, Massachusetts. The first eleven pupils, ten women and one girl, were mostly ex-slaves, determined to learn to read the Bible and write.

Totally dedicated, Misses Packard and Giles returned to the North in 1882 for more funds. At a church meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, they were introduced to Mr. John D. Rockefeller who emptied his wallet during the collection and questioned the two women's intentions:

"You know," he said, "there are so many who come here and get us to give money. Then they're gone, and we don't know where they are Ñ where their work is. Do you mean to stick? If you do, you'll hear from me again."

Determined to succeed, the women took an option on an Atlanta site that had been used as barracks and drill grounds for federal troops during the Civil War. Sustained by their faith, Misses Packard and Giles worked diligently to gain additional financial support. Subsequently, title of the property was transferred to the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, and in February 1883, the school relocated to its new nine-acre site, which included five frame buildings with both classroom and residence hall space. In an effort to liquidate the debt, more than $4,000 was raised by the Black community, $3,000 by the Negro Baptists of Georgia, and another $1,300 from individual contributions. Other important gifts and contributions kept operating costs at a minimum. Teachers volunteered their services, and gifts of furnishings, supplies, and clothing were sent from the North. As enrollment steadily increased, the normal school curriculum was expanded to include sewing, cooking, millinery, and other preeminently practical subjects.

In April 1884 on the third anniversary of the founding of the school, Mr. John D. Rockefeller was indeed heard from again. Visiting the school with Mrs. Rockefeller, her sister and her mother, and Mrs. Lucy Henry Spelman, Mr. Rockefeller was enormously impressed with the seminary and settled the debt on the property. Later, the name of the school was changed to Spelman Seminary in honor of the Spelman family, longtime activists in the Anti-Slavery Movement.

In addition to stabilizing a tenuous financial situation, the Rockefeller gift established an interest and recognition that otherwise might have taken years to achieve. Financial support from new sources helped to broaden the school's involvement in community, social, and church work. The Slater Fund, already underwriting the cost of teaching new trade subjects, provided the money to set up a printing department. The Spelman Messenger (1884), the first major publication, became an important instrument for disseminating practical information, especially for families in rural areas.

As the mushrooming enrollment taxed the school's modest facilities, Mr. Rockefeller responded by donating funds for a magnificent $40,000 brick building, the first major construction on the Spelman campus. In 1887, Rockefeller Hall, named for its donor, was succeeded by another major building, Packard Hall. Completed in 1888, the building was dedicated to the work, vision, and self-sacrifice of Sophia Packard, who worked assiduously to acquire a state charter for the school. In 1888 the charter was granted, and the Board of Trustees officially expressed its gratitude by appointing Miss Packard as Spelman's first president.

During the first 10 years, the school flourished with 800 pupils, 30 teachers, and property valued at $90,000. Harriet E. Giles succeeded Sophia Packard and served as president of Spelman for the next 18 years, a period marked by maturation and progress. The Seminary conferred its first college degrees in 1901. A year later, the Seminary celebrated its 25th anniversary as an institution that had filled a spectrum of needs for thousands of Black women Ñ from grade school through college. Miss Giles' death on November 12, 1909, marked the end of a remarkable era.

Lucy Hale Tapley was elected to the presidency in March 1910. Miss Tapley, who had worked with the founders for 20 years, proved a formidable leader for the times. The 17 years of her administration saw the school answer the challenges of a new century and gradually move away from the concept of an all-purpose academy. When the public sector began to provide educational opportunities for Black children, Spelman concentrated on higher level offerings as the Board of Trustees voted to discontinue the elementary school in 1927.

Spelman's brisk and positive president believed that training teachers constituted the most efficient use of the school's resources, and with the help of the Rockefellers, she acquired the facilities to strengthen the program offering elementary and secondary education, and home economics courses. On June 1, 1924, the name of the school was officially changed to Spelman College.

Within a 10-year period, four major buildings were erected. Sisters Chapel, named in honor of Laura Spelman Rockefeller and her sister Lucy Maria Spelman, was the crowning achievement of Miss Tapley's administration. The building, with a seating capacity of 1,050, still remains one of the largest in the Atlanta University Center. Miss Tapley resigned in June 1927 and was named President Emerita.

Florence Matilda Read, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, was elected president, effective September 1, 1927. As a condition of her acceptance, Miss Read requested that Spelman establish an endowment fund and use the interest to help defray the cost of operations. The trustees used her request to solicit funds that eventually totaled more than $3,000,000. By 1930 Spelman had become one of only six Black colleges to hold membership in the American Association of Colleges and by 1932 had received an "A" rating from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

One of the most significant events in the College's history was the signing of the Agreement of Affiliation between Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Atlanta University in April 1929. The agreement set up a university system in which Spelman and Morehouse served as undergraduate institutions and Atlanta University as the graduate school. Eventually, Morris Brown and Clark Colleges joined the affiliation in 1957, the Interdenominational Theological Center in 1959, and the Morehouse School of Medicine in 1983. The largest consortium of Black colleges was ultimately renamed the Atlanta University Center (AUC).

In 1929 the nearly unique system strengthened the schools by an interchange of facilities, faculties, students, and curricula. The addition of Atlanta University as the graduate school gave the undergraduate institutions immediate access to graduate facilities in an era when Blacks were still denied entrance to southern universities. Under the new system, Spelman's high school division was turned over to Atlanta University and thereafter operated as the Atlanta University Laboratory School.

A little more than a year after the Agreement of Affiliation had been signed, the General Education Board, a Rockefeller agency, donated the funds for a magnificent library for the collective use of members and prospective members of the new university system. Designed by James Gambrell Rogers (architect for Yale, Northwestern, Cornell, et al.) and strategically located on the Atlanta University campus between Spelman and Morehouse, the new structure was completed in 1932 and later was named for Trevor Arnett, chairman of Spelman's Board of Trustees and a distinguished administrator.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Spelman continued to strengthen its core curriculum, but there was a noticeable emphasis on the arts because exclusionary practices in the South denied Blacks cultural exposure. In most instances, Spelman gave its students their first real exposure to the fine arts, especially in music, art, drama, and dance.

World War II helped to alleviate some of the traditions of discrimination. As an integral part of the war effort, Spelman allowed the Army to use Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Building as Branch #7 of the Army Administration School. During its operation, nearly 1,500 soldiers were graduated from the school. Spelman graduates served in the WAC (Women's Army Corps) and the Army Nurses Corps as camp librarians and in the American Red Cross, government, and industry.

At the end of the war, after a thorough survey of the school, the prestigious American Association of Universities, an elite organization of graduate schools, placed Spelman on its approved list of colleges and universities, a recognition which was tantamount to giving qualified Spelman women access to the best graduate schools in America. By the end of 1947, only seven Black schools had met the association's requirements, and three of the schools were in Atlanta: Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Atlanta University.

On July 1, 1953, an enormously productive and distinguished career ended when Florence Read retired as president of Spelman. Named President Emerita, she was succeeded by Dr. Albert E. Manley, who had been dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina College in Durham since 1946.

A graduate of Johnson C. Smith University, Dr. Manley earned his Ed.D. at Stanford University. He was the first Black and the first male to serve as president of Spelman College. From the first day of his administration, Dr. Manley demonstrated his belief that women were as capable of leadership as men and that for such leadership to be effective, it must be backed by knowledge. He emphasized the achievement of excellence in all aspects of life.

As opportunities for Black women increased, Spelman women were encouraged to enter the fields of medicine, law, international affairs, engineering, business, and industry. They were prepared and encouraged to enter the best graduate and professional schools in the country. Although the decade of the 1960s severely tested all institutions of higher learning and threatened the continuity and purposes of the predominantly Black colleges, Spelman's strong emergence from those challenges attests to the quality of its leadership and the fiber of the whole college community.

The Albert Manley administration created opportunities for students to travel and study abroad, encouraged leadership training, developed an effective student government association, and strengthened the tradition of excellence in the fine arts. A new fine arts building, named for John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was built to house the departments of drama, music, and art. As the College continued to grow, three new dormitories were built and classroom buildings were renovated or updated to meet the demands of an expanding curriculum.

When Dr. Manley retired in 1976, Dr. Donald M. Stewart became the sixth president of the College. Dr. Stewart, with the A.B. degree from Grinnell, the A.M. degree from Yale, and the M.P.A. and D.P.A. from Harvard, brought new strengths and experiences to the Spelman presidency. He provided leadership as Spelman women were educated to face broader opportunities and more complex responsibilities.

During his tenure, Dr. Stewart continued Spelman's long tradition of academic excellence. By establishing a full-fledged chemistry department and by strengthening its General Education requirements, Spelman broadened its majors and added career oriented minors. A writing workshop was initiated to help students improve their thinking and writing skills. To further enhance the academic environment, the Comprehensive Writing Program, the Honors Program and the Women's Research and Resource Center were developed.

Notable alumnae
Marian Wright Edelman, the founder of the Children's Defense Fund

Keshia Knight Pulliam, Actress on The Cosby Show

Esther Rolle, Actress <member of Zeta Phi Beta>

Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist

Audrey F. Manley, president emerita of Spelman College and former Acting Surgeon General

Latanya Richardson, Actress on The Fighting Temptations

Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock

Pearl Cleage, novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and journalist

Tina McElroy Ansa, writer

Varnette Honeywood, creator of the Little Bill character

Kathleen McGee-Anderson, television producer and playwright
(Soul Food, Touched By An Angel, Any Day Now)

Rolonda Watts, journalist, actor, writer, talk show host

Danica Tisdale, Miss Georgia 2004 (first African-American to hold the title) <member of Alpha Kappa Alpha>

Marcelite J. Harris, first African-American woman general in the U.S. Air Force

GCer Alumnae:
Abaici
AKA_Monet
WenD08
Eclipse
Ms DJ80

More about Spelman here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelman_College



[color=royal blue]Bennett College[/color]
http://www.bennett.edu/

History taken from: http://www.bennett.edu/about/history.htm

In 1873, Bennett College had its beginning in the unplastered basement of the Warnersville Methodist Episcopal Church (now known as St. Matthew’s Methodist Church). Seventy young men and women started elementary and secondary level studies. In 1874 the Freedmen’s Aid Society took over the school which remained under its auspices for 50 years.

Within five years of 1873, a group of emancipated slaves purchased the present site for the school. College level courses and permanent facilities were added. In 1926, The Women’s Home Missionary Society joined with the Board of Education of the church to make Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., formerly co-educational, a college for women. The challenges that were overcome to establish Bennett demand that today’s challenges be met and overcome to ensure her survival.

For more than 128 years women have found Bennett to be the ideal place to foster the constant rhythm of ideas. Each student’s individual need for self-expression and desire for achievement is constantly nurtured. The College fosters a strong respect for every student. Today, in the midst of a very active renaissance, Bennett is preparing contemporary women to be well educated, productive professionals, informed, participating citizens, and enlightened parents. The College offers twenty-four areas of study in Education, the Social Sciences, the Humanities, and in Natural and Behavioral Sciences and Mathematics. Numerous opportunities to study at other higher education institutions at home and abroad are available to continue the educational enrichment of Bennett’s students.

The goals of the College continue to focus on the intellectual, spiritual and cultural growth of young women who must be prepared for lifelong learning and leadership. Since 1930 more than 5,000 women have graduated from Bennett College. Known as Bennett Belles, they continue to be among contributing women of achievement in all walks of life.

From Wikipedia:
David Dallas Jones was appointed the first president of the women's college -- under his leadership, the high school campus at Bennett was closed to focus the attentions of the staff fully on expanding and enriching the college curriculum. After Jones's death, Willa B. Player assumed the presidency -- under her guidance, Bennett College became one of the first 15 four-year Negro colleges to be admitted to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

From Bennett's site:
Dr. Willa B. Player, Bennett's first woman president and the first African American woman president of a four year liberal arts college in the U.S.

Among Bennett's more distinguished alumnae are:

Dr. Glenora M. Putnam, the first African-American woman to serve as president of the national YWCA

Faye Robinson, an accomplished and internationally well-known opera singer

Dr. Hatie Carwell, a noted research scientist and expert in the study of radiation

Barbara Hamm, the first African-American woman to serve as a television news director in the United States

Patricia Brown, serving as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA) as of 2004

GCer to become an alumna this spring: GRITS

Regarding Spelman and Bennett, I was remiss in identifying Soror Johnetta B. Cole as President Emeritus for Spelman and current president for Bennett.

I too am a proud Spelman Alumna Class of 2002 :D

I was just waiting for you to post our review LOL

Re: Spelman
Audrey Manley and Varnette Honeywood are also sorors. ;)

Re: Bennett
Soror Gloria Randle Scott, past national secretary of DST and first Black woman president of the Girl Scouts of America, was the 12th president of Bennett.

Re: IDEAL08 & my alma mater
 

I gotta hijack here for a minute... Aside from the fact that CT is doing a wonderful job with these info-bytes, I had to note:


This world is WAY too small.. I went to Heights too!!! LMAOOOOO

:eek:

:cool: I don't think I ever saw you mention that otherwise I would have listed you as well.

:cool: :cool: Awesome!!! :D Now I know you people really are reading the posts, lol.

Word? :cool:
ETA: Artic-U-LATE is also a Warrensville grad. :cool:

Fisk University

http://www.fisk.edu


Barely six months after the end of the Civil War, and just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, three men — John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith — established the Fisk School in Nashville, named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmen's Bureau, who provided the new institution with facilities in former Union Army barracks near the present site of Nashville's Union Station. In these facilities Fisk convened its first classes on January 9, 1866. The first students ranged in age from seven to seventy, but shared common experiences of slavery and poverty — and an extraordinary thirst for learning.


The work of Fisk's founders was sponsored by the American Missionary Association — later part of the United Church of Christ, with which Fisk retains an affiliation today. Ogden, Cravath, and Smith, along with others in their movement, shared a dream of an educational institution that would be open to all, regardless of race, and that would measure itself by "the highest standards, not of Negro education, but of American education at its best." Their dream was incorporated as Fisk University on August 22, 1867.



The tradition of excellence at Fisk has developed out of a history marked by struggle and uncertainty. Fisk's world-famous Jubilee Singers originated as a group of traveling students who set out from Nashville in 1871, taking the entire contents of the University treasury with them for travel expenses, praying that through their music they could somehow raise money enough to keep open the doors of their debt-ridden school. The singers struggled at first, but before long, their performances so electrified audiences that they traveled throughout the United States and Europe, moving to tears audiences that included William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Ulysses S. Grant, William Gladstone, Mark Twain, Johann Strauss, and Queen Victoria. The Jubilee Singers introduced much of the world to the spiritual as a musical genre — and in the process raised funds that preserved their University and permitted construction of Jubilee Hall, the South's first permanent structure built for the education of black students. As a designated National Historical Landmark, today, Jubilee Hall remains the dramatic focal point of Fisk's campus. To this day, each October 6, Fisk pauses to observe the anniversary of the singers' departure from campus in 1871. The contemporary Jubilee Singers perform in a University convocation — and conclude the day's ceremonies with a pilgrimage to the gravesites of the original singers, where once again, the old songs are sung at the burial places of their first performers.



From its earliest days, Fisk has played a leadership role in the education of African-Americans. Fisk faculty and alumni have been among America's intellectual, artistic, and civic leaders in every generation since the University's beginnings. Among them have been such figures as W.E.B. Du Bois (Fisk class of 1888), the great social critic and co-founder of the NAACP. Booker T. Washington — the great educator who was Du Bois' famous philosophical adversary as well as the founder of Tuskegee University — served on Fisk's Board of Trustees, married a Fisk alumna, and sent his own children to Fisk. Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Fisk's first black president, helped to conceive the modern science of sociology. The distinguished artist Aaron Douglas served on the Fisk faculty for many years, and his murals decorate the walls of the University's administration building. Arna Bontemps, Sterling A. Brown, Robert Hayden, and James Weldon Johnson were among several Fisk faculty members who became major figures in American literature. The acclaimed composer-musicologists John W. Work Sr., John W. Work, Jr., and John W. Work, III were Fisk alumni and members of the faculty. Professor St. Elmo Brady, one of the first African-Americans to achieve eminence in chemistry, was for many years on the Fisk faculty. Probably no single institution has played so central a role as Fisk in the shaping of black learning and culture in America.


The Fisk tradition of leadership and excellence is being carried on today. Thurgood Marshall, who later become the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was among the early participants in Charles S. Johnson's famous Race Relations Institute at Fisk. John Hope Franklin, the most eminent historian of the African-American experience, is a Fisk alumnus. Nikki Giovanni, the award-winning contemporary poet, is a Fisk graduate as well. Among currently practicing black physicians, lawyers, and dentists, one in six is a Fisk graduate. In proportion to its size, Fisk continues to contribute more alumni to the ranks of doctorally prepared African-American scholars than any institution, black or white, in the United States. Experiments developed in Fisk's physics laboratories have orbited the earth in the space shuttle. The University's Molecular Spectroscopy Research Laboratory is internationally recognized. Fisk faculty members — even while emphasizing teaching above all other priorities — carry out funded research projects to a degree excelled by no college or university of comparable size.


Even before regional accreditation was available to African-American institutions, Fisk had gained recognition by leading universities throughout the nation, and by such agencies as the Board of Regents of the State of New York — enabling Fisk graduates to enter graduate and professional schools to study for advanced degrees. Then, in 1930, Fisk became the first African-American institution to gain accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It was also the first such institution to be placed on the approved lists of the Association of American Universities (1933) and the American Association of University Women (1948). In 1952, Fisk received a charter for the first Phi Beta Kappa chapter on a predominantly black campus. In 1954, Fisk became the first, private, black college accredited for its music programs by the National Association of Schools of Music. Today, Fisk also holds memberships in the American Association of Schools of Music, the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Its department of chemistry is on the approved list of the American Chemical Society. Fisk is a member of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States and a sponsoring institution of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Inc. It is approved for teacher certification purposes by the State of Tennessee Department of Education.

Notable alumni
Aaron Douglas, painter, illustrator, muralist

W. E. B. Du Bois, sociologist, scholar, first Black to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard

John Hope Franklin, historian, professor, scholar, author of landmark text, From Slavery to Freedom, graduate of the class of 1935

Nikki Giovanni, poet, author, professor, scholar

Kym Whitley, actress, comedienne

Hortense Canady, past national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated

Alma Powell, wife of Gen. Colin Powell

Alcee Hastings, U.S. Congressman

Roland Hayes, concert singer

James Weldon Johnson, author, poet and civil rights activist, author of the "Negro National Anthem", "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Fisk Jubilee Singers, first African American performers to gain international acclaim for introducing the world to Negro Spirituals

Lewis Wade Jones, sociologist and educator

John Lewis, U.S. Congressman <member of Phi Beta Sigma>

Hazel O'Leary, current President of Fisk University and former U.S. Secretary of Energy <member of Alpha Kappa Alpha>

John Wesley Work III, professor, composer and musicologist

Matthew Knowles, music industry executive and father to former Destiny's Child frontwoman, Beyoncé



[color=sky blue]Jackson State University[/color]
http://www.jsums.edu/

Jackson State University was founded in 1877 as the Natchez Seminary by the American Baptist Home Mission Society in Natchez, Mississippi. The seminary hoped to promote the moral, religious, and intellectual improvement of Christian leaders of the colored people of Mississippi and the neighboring states. In 1882, the institution moved to Jackson because of its central location in the state, and shortly thereafter the name was changed to Jackson College.

For sixty-three years the school operated as a private church school. In 1940, the college became a state institution for training rural and elementary school teachers. The first bachelor’s degrees were awarded in 1944. In subsequent years, the name changed to Jackson State College. Expansion of the curriculum and facilities elevated the college to university status in 1974; thus, the name changed to Jackson State University.

1970 marked the year of the infamous Jackson State killings, in which two students were left dead after a riot.

In 1977, the school celebrated its centennial. In 1979, Jackson State University was officially designated the Urban University of Mississippi, and as such, seeks solutions for urban problems through its programs and activities. The University is pledged to the advancement of a free society and continued progress of democracy.

In 1983, the University completed an $11.2-million capital campaign that resulted in the renovation and improvement of several campus buildings and provided for expanded programs offered in continuing education. New buildings and extended renovations had began in the 2003-2004 academic year, including processes of beautification and extension.

Famous Alumni
Oil Can Boyd-former Major League Baseball pitcher

Corey Bradford-National Football League player

Walter Payton-NFL Hall of Fame running back

Jimmy Smith-NFL player for the Jacksonville Jaguars

Lindsey Hunter-NBA Basketball Player (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers, and Toronto Raptors.)

Jackie Slater-NFL Hall of Fame Offensive lineman

Awww! Good stuff CT4.

I love hearing the sassy c/o 30s Spelmanites speak of Ms. Read.

Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina
http://www.shawuniversity.edu/main.htm

On December 1, 1865, when Henry Martin Tupper undertook the organization of a theology class as a means of teaching Freedmen to read and interpret the Bible, no one envisioned the end result of this being the establishment of a university. Rapid growth in the size of this class led to the purchase of land in 1866 for the purpose of erecting a building to serve as both church and school. The school was named the "Raleigh Institute," and it functioned as such until 1870, when it was supplanted by the "Shaw Collegiate Institute." In 1875, it was incorporated as the "Shaw University," which name it still bears, with the charter specifying that students were to be admitted without regard to race, creed, or sex. The school does not bear the name of its founder but of Elijah Shaw, the benefactor who provided funds for the first building, Shaw Hall, erected in 1871.

The co-educational emphasis of the institution was noted with the erection of the Estey Hall (1873), the first women's dormitory on a co-educational campus in the United States. Named for its primary benefactor, Jacob Estey, the building was used as a residence hall for women until 1968 and for men from 1968 to 1970. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The University graduated its first college class in 1878, its first class of medical doctors in 1886, awarded its first law degree in 1890, and its first pharmacy degree in 1893. In 1909, the Normal Department was supplanted by an Education Department, and in 1910, the Preparatory Department became a four-year academy. The professional schools were closed in 1918, but the college, theological department, and academy were continued, the latter existing until 1926. The theological department became a theological seminary in 1933 and continued as part of the University until 1976, when it became an independent institution. Since 1921, Shaw has functioned primarily as a liberal arts college, although it has retained its name as a university.

In 1931, the University elected its first Black president, Dr. William Stuart Nelson, who was president from 1931 to 1936. In 1963, the University elected its first president who is an alumnus of the school, Dr. James E. Cheek. He remained president from December 1963 through June 1969. Dr. Clarence G. Newsome is the 13th President of Shaw University. Under his leadership, Shaw University has taken many bold and progressive strides towards the mark of excellence. Under his leadership the University has broken ground for the Shaw University Center for Early Childhood Education, Research and Development; the Social Work Program has been granted candidacy towards full accreditation; the Shaw University Divinity School (SUDS) was awarded Full Accredited Membership status for 10 years by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) for the first time in its nearly 100-year history, and Avaya Inc., a leading global provider of communications networks and services for businesses, was chosen to advance the capability of students, faculty and the campus community into a new age of technology with Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony communications.

Landmarks
Shaw University has two buildings listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. Estey Hall, erected in 1873, was the nation’s first dormitory to house women on a coeducational campus. The Leonard School of Medicine, founded in 1885, was the first four-year medical school to train Black doctors and pharmacists in the South.


World War II Study
Shaw University led a research study to investigate why Black WWII veterans were overlooked for the Medal of Honor. The study concluded that racism was the reason Black soldiers did not receive the top military award. After citing its conclusion, the 272-page Shaw study went on to recommend and name ten soldiers whose military records warranted receipt of the Medal of Honor.

In January 1995 the team’s findings were delivered to Washington, D.C. In April 1996 the University received word that the Pentagon had chosen seven of the ten soldiers recommended in the study to receive the prestigious medal. All of those nominated had received less distinguished awards for their military service. President William Jefferson Clinton awarded the Medals of Honor on January 13, 1997. The Pentagon’s reaction to the $320,585.00 federally funded study marked the third time in history the military has re-evaluated military records to award the Medal of Honor. Only one of the seven nominees, 1st Lt. Vernon Baker of St. Maries, Idaho, was alive to receive the medal. Those who received the Medal of Honor posthumously were: 1st Lt. Charles L. Thomas of Detroit; Pvt. George Watson of Birmingham, Ala.; Staff Sgt. Edward A. Carter Jr. of Los Angeles, CA; 1st Lt. John R. Fox of Boston; Pfc. Willy F. James Jr. of Kansas City, Kan.; and Staff Sgt. Ruben Rivers of Tecumseh, Okla.

Interesting Facts
Shaw University has been called the mother of African-American colleges in North Carolina. North Carolina Central, Elizabeth City State, and Fayetteville State Universities were founded by Shaw graduates. The founder of Livingstone College spent his first two college years at Shaw before transferring to Lincoln University, and what is now A&T State University was located on Shaw’s campus during its first year of existence. In addition, the Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an outgrowth of a conference held on the campus of Shaw University in 1960.


Alabama State University

http://www.alasu.edu/HOME/default.aspx?id=2


History of Alabama State University
The impetus to establish a school for the black citizens of Alabama, which would eventually become Alabama State University, began shortly after an event that not only tore this country apart, but created a far different United States in which relationships, and attitudes, were altered irrevocably.

The Civil War effected numerous changes in the United States, especially in the South, for not only did that war result in the end of slavery, but it also brought about considerable change in the relationships between blacks and whites. Nowhere was this changed relationship more clearly seen than in education. Before the war, the right to an education, even of the most rudimentary sort, was the private reserve of whites. All that changed with the Northern victory as black Southerners, with assistance of Northern white missionaries and the leaders of African-American churches, set out to establish educational institutions for the freedmen.

Blacks in the Black Belt of Alabama, the heart of the Southern Confederacy, evinced a keen interest in providing educational opportunities for their children. In 1867, African-American leaders founded Lincoln Normal School at Marion in Perry County, Alabama. Alabama State University is a direct descendent of Lincoln Normal School, thus making it one of the oldest institutions of higher education founded by black Americans. In 1868, the American Missionary Association (AMA) leased the Lincoln Normal School building and operated and financed the school. In 1869 the AMA, with the support of $2,800 from the Freedman's Bureau of the federal government and further support from the "colored people of Alabama," raised $4,200 to construct a new building. In 1870, while the AMA still provided the teachers, the state of Alabama began its support of the institution when the Legislature appropriated $486 for the school's use. The state's support rose to $1,250 the next year.

Though many people worked to establish Lincoln Normal School, Peyton Finley's efforts contributed most in the early years to make the institution permanent. In 1871 Finley, the first black-elected member of the State Board of Education, petitioned the Legislature to establish a "university for colored people," but the Legislature rejected his request. Finley did not stop, and in 1873 his efforts gained success when the Alabama Legislature established "a State Normal School and University for the Education of the Colored Teachers and Students." The Act would take effect only if the president and trustees of Lincoln Normal School would place that facility at the disposal of the state in order for the new university to be established. The institution's first president, George N. Card, accepted that provision and in 1874 he led the effort in reorganizing Lincoln Normal School in Marion as America's first state-supported educational institution for blacks. The school continued at Marion for the next 13 years.

While Lincoln operated in Marion, blacks continued to press for a more prominently supported school for black youths. A major change on their behalf came in 1887 when the legislature authorized the establishment of the Alabama Colored People's University. The act allocated $10,000 for the purchase of land and the construction of buildings, and it set aside $7,500 annually for operating expenses.

The State Normal School and University at Marion would be discontinued, provided, of course, that officials of the black school could find a suitable new location for the school that was acceptable to whites. Under the leadership of President William Burns Paterson, who was white, black citizens who wanted the university in Montgomery pledged $5,000 in cash and land and donated the use of some temporary buildings. Less than eight months after the passage of the enabling legislation, the university opened in Montgomery at Beulah Baptist Church with a faculty of nine members. The university taught its first classes in Montgomery on October 3, 1887.

Though Paterson and others had overcome initial opposition to locating the school in Montgomery, opponents to state support of education for blacks remained hostile to the new university. Indeed, such opponents filed suit in state court and won a ruling in 1887 from the Alabama Supreme Court that declared unconstitutional certain sections of the legislation that established the university for African-Americans. Thus, the school operated for two years solely on meager tuition fees, voluntary service and donations until by act of the Legislature in 1889 the state resumed its support.

The new law changed the name of the school from university to Normal School for Colored Students, thus skirting the Supreme Court's finding, and re-established the $7,500 state appropriation. Indeed, 1889 was a pivotal year in the development of the university because the "colored people of Montgomery" also formally conveyed to state authorities the previously pledged sum of $3,000 and the land for the development of a permanent campus at the university's current location between Decatur and Hall streets. The university erected Tullibody Hall the next year as its first permanent building. That building burned in 1904 and was replaced in 1906 by the university's first brick structure, which also took the name of Tullibody Hall.

Paterson, who had guided the university through the early years, and who is generally considered its founder because of his 37 years of service to it, died in 1915. Ironically, Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute and considered one of the premier African-Americans in this country during this period, died the same year. And yet, both institutions have survived these two deaths to educate thousands of African-Americans to this day.

During the following decade presidents John William Beverly, who was the institution's first black teacher and president, and George Washington Trenholm organized the institution as a four-year teacher training high school and added a junior college department. In the early 1920s the university began operating on the four-quarter system and added the departments of home economics and commerce. This decade of growth and change also saw the purchase of additional land, including an 80-acre farm which constitutes the bulk of its current holdings. The state also appropriated $50,000 for the construction of dormitories and dining facilities.

In 1925 George Washington Trenholm died after five years in office and was succeeded by his 25-year-old son, Harper Councill Trenholm. The younger Trenholm would serve the university as president for 37 years. H. C. Trenholm's tenure was one of tremendous growth and development for the university. He oversaw the change from a junior college to a full four-year institution, a process that was completed in 1928 and which enabled the college to convey its first baccalaureate degree in teacher education in 1931. In 1940 Trenholm initiated a graduate degree program, and State Teachers College awarded its first master's degree in 1943. The school also established branch campuses in Mobile and Birmingham.

Trenholm was eager for the institution to develop and gain recognition. Thus he worked hard to improve the physical facilities in concert with advances in the quality of academic programs. During the economic expansion that followed the end of the Great Depression, the university constructed eight permanent brick buildings, a swimming pool and a stadium for sporting events. The state also allowed the institution to change its name to reflect changes in programs. In 1929 it became State Teachers College, Alabama State College for Negroes in 1948 and Alabama State College in 1954. Trenholm also gained for the university the recognition he desired. In 1935 the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), which accredited black and white colleges separately during those years, granted State Teachers College a Class B recognition; it raised the college's level to Class A in 1943.

Alabama State and its people have made major contributions to the development of the state and the nation. But none of those involvements were more important, or affected the institution more negatively, than involvement of students and employees in the Civil Rights Movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the first of the direct action campaigns of the modern Civil Rights Movement, awakened a new consciousness among the students, faculty and staff at Alabama State as they responded to the call for participants. And state officials, in a state that was committed to segregation, exacted a heavy price on the college. The institution found itself even less well funded, a condition that in 1961 resulted in the loss of accreditation by SACS.

In 1962, after an interim president filled the post during Trenholm's illness, Levi Watkins assumed the presidency. Watkins set out to broaden the mission of the institution and to reclaim its SACS accreditation, the latter of which he achieved in 1966. In 1969, the State Board of Education, then the governing board of the institution, approved a name change; the institution became Alabama State University. It was during these years that the university began its continued path of steady growth and movement toward its current role as a comprehensive university. In 1975, in an act of tremendous importance for the university, the Legislature established an independent board of trustees for Alabama State University.

Watkins retired from the presidency in 1981 and was succeeded in turn by presidents Robert Randolph (1981-1983), Leon Howard (1983-1991), C. C. Baker (1991-1994) William H. Harris (2001), and Joe A. Lee (2001-Present). Their efforts have built upon the work of predecessors to position Alabama State University to take a leading role in preparing Alabamians for the 21st century.

:eek: I almost forgot. :(

Winston Salem State University

http://www.wssu.edu/wssu

Winston-Salem State University is a four-year university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1892 as the Slater Industrial Academy, Winston-Salem State in the 05-06 school year enrolls 4,805 students, employs over 200 staff members, and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina System. Winston-Salem State offers 40 academic majors and 7 different graduate programs. The school motto is "Enter to learn, Depart to serve." The school colors are red and white, and the team name is the rams. It is a historically black college. Winston-Salem State University is currently part of the CIAA, Central Intercolleigate Althetic Association, but is in the stages of moving to the MEAC, Mideastern Atlhetic Confernce

Diggs Gallery
http://www.wssu.edu/WSSU/About/Admin...iggs%20Gallery

What is the HBCU that is the furthest north? Is it in Baltimore (with Coppin and MSU)?

What about the furthest west HBCU?

Just curious - the facts being posted are very interesting - I'm just wondering about those two questions. Thank you!

@ Daffodils, stay tuned :cool:


Wilberforce University

http://www.wilberforce.edu/home/home.html

Founded in 1856, Wilberforce University can trace its origin to a period of history before the Civil War, when the Ohio Underground Railroad was established as a means of escape for all those blacks who sought their freedom in the North from the yoke of slavery, one of the destination points of this railroad became Wilberforce University. As the Underground Railroad provided a route from physical bondage, the University was formed to provide an intellectual Mecca and refuge from slavery's first rule: ignorance.

Wilberforce University, the nation's oldest private, historically black university, was named to honor the great 18th century abolitionist, William Wilberforce. Early in 1856, the Methodist Episcopal Church purchased property for the new institution at Tawawa Springs, near Xenia, Ohio. The school met with early success until the Civil War when enrollment and financial support dwindled. The original Wilberforce closed its doors in 1862. In March of the following year, Bishop Daniel A. Payne of the African Methodist Episcopal Church negotiated to purchase the University's facilities. Payne, a member of the original 1856 corporation, secured the cooperation of John G. Mitchell, principal of the Eastern District Public School of Cincinnati, Ohio and James A. Shorter, pastor of the A.M.E. Church of Zanesville, Ohio. The property was soon turned over to them as agents of the church.

The University was newly incorporated on July 10, 1863. In 1887 the State of Ohio began to fund the University by establishing a combined normal and industrial department. This department later became the University's sister institution, Central State University. Wilberforce also spawned another institution, Payne Theological Seminary. It was founded in 1891 as an outgrowth of the Theological Department at Wilberforce University.

Today, Wilberforce University continues to build on its sacred tradition. It is a four-year, fully accredited liberal arts institution. The 1990s were good years for the University, ushering in a period of growth and financial accountability. Wilberforce University offers some 20 fully accredited liberal arts concentrations to students in business, communications, computing and engineering sciences, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. It offers dual degree programs in architecture, aerospace, and nuclear engineering in conjunction with the University of Cincinnati. Other dual degree programs are available in electrical and mechanical engineering in cooperation with the University of Dayton, and in law with St. John's University School of Law. The University's Adult and Continuing Education Program, CLIMB (Credentials for Leadership in Management and Business), annually attracts some 200 nontraditional students interested in completing bachelor of science degrees in organizational management, health care administration and information technology.

During the last few years, five new facilities have been built and dedicated: a $2.1 million Wolfe Administration Building, which houses the administrative offices of the University; the $2.5 million Alumni Multiplex, which provides state-of-the-art academic, sports and recreational facilities for the campus and intercollegiate sports at the University; a $100,000 Student Health Center, which provides medical services from on-site physicians and health care providers; a $200,000 Communications Complex, which houses the Mass Media Communications Program, the campus television studio and campus newspaper production facilities; the new $4.5 million John L. Henderson Hall, capable of housing 110 students; and the new $2.5 million Louis Stokes Health and Wellness Center.

The University continues to attract an increasing number of student scholars who are active on the campus newspaper, the Forensic Team, Campus Ministry programs, the University Choir, the Jazz Band, the Men's and Women's Basketball Teams, WURS-Radio Station, Greek and honorary societies and student government.

Wilberforce University has made excellent progress in its programmatic and outreach thrust. It has a specialized Institute for African-American/Israel Exchange Program; Study Abroad programs in Egypt and Lancaster, England; a Caribbean student exchange program; articulation agreements with major two-year colleges across the country; and a 10-year student-faculty Collaboration Program with Antioch University.

The University has established a number of outreach programs, as well as national and international initiatives such as the expansion of its study abroad programs; the procurement in October 1998 of a $2.5 million Congressional appropriation grant to renovate the health care facility on campus and a $1 million grant to develop a new academic program focusing on computer science and engineering; a $1.3 million grant from NASA in 1992 to establish what is now a teaching collaboration and research center at Wilberforce University; the creation of The Minority Male Health Consortium through the University Family Life Center; and the development of the Wilberforce Intensive Summer Experience (WISE) Program that brings some 50 incoming freshmen students to campus each summer for an intensive five-week, major-focused program of study.

The brush stroke that completes the picture of Wilberforce University is its mandatory Cooperative Education Program. Wilberforce bears the distinction of being only one of two four-year institutions in the country to require internships as a requirement for graduation. Cooperative Education has been the heartbeat of academics at Wilberforce. The program has seen many others attempt to duplicate its success story, but to date no other has been able. Wilberforce University has been cited for its excellence in many publications such as Black Enterprise, Better Homes & Gardens, Career, and the Black Employment & Education Journal.



Delaware State University in Dover, DE

http://www.desu.edu

Delaware State University is a historically black university in Dover, Delaware. It was founded in 1891.

Currently, the university consists of six colleges: College of Mathematics, Science and Technology, School of Business, College of Arts and Humanities, College of Professional Studies, College of Education and Sports Sciences and College of Agriculture and Related Sciences.

As of Fall 2005, the University has about 3,700 students, of which about 340 are graduate students. The University offers PhD programs in Applied Mathematics/Mathematical Physics and Neuroscience, doctoral program in education and Master's programs in various fields of sciences, nursing, social work, education, MBA program, natural resources, etc.

The president of Delaware State University is Allan L. Sessoms. Delaware State University's athletic programs participate in NCAA's Division I (I-AA for football). The university's nickname is the Hornets.

The Delaware State men's basketball team won the 2005 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship. The Hornets played in the 2005 NCAA tournament as a 16-seed, losing 57-46 in the opening round to 1-seed Duke.

Wiley College in Marshall, Tx

http://www.wileyc.edu/

from Wikipedia:
Wiley College is the first and oldest historically black college west of the Mississippi River and is located on the west side of Marshall, Texas. The college was founded in 1873 by the Methodist Episcopal Church's Bishop Isaac Wiley and was certified in 1882 by the Freedmen's Aid Society. Melvin B. Tolson, a contemporary of the Harlem Renaissance, was an English professor at the college. James L. Farmer, Sr. was the first black Texan to hold a doctorate and also was a professor at Wiley.

Farmer's son, James L. Farmer Jr. was a graduate of Wiley and went on to become one of the "Big Three" of the Civil Rights Movement; organizing the first sit-ins and Freedom Rides in the United States. Wiley, along with Bishop College, was instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement in Texas. Wiley and Bishop students launched the first sit ins in Texas in the rotunda of the Old Harrison County Courthouse.

Wiley was the first college in East Texas to issue laptop computers to its students.

Notable Alumni
James L. Farmer, Jr. - Civil rights leader

Emmett Jay Scott - Civic leader

Heman Marion Sweatt - Plaintiff in famous U.S. Supreme Court
Case, Sweatt v. Painter; helped found Texas Southern University



Kentucky State University

From Kentucky State's website:
On October 22, 1887, dedicatory exercises were held in Frankfort, Kentucky for the State Normal School for Colored Persons, which had been sanctioned by the 1886 Kentucky General Assembly. The opening of the school and its successive evolution into Kentucky State University in 1972 is another saga that is largely untold. Its progress amid criticism from unfriendly quarters is not unusual for historically black institutions. However, it is unusual for such an institution to serve in a state that persistently lost its black population from 1900 forward.

It is also unusual for what was founded as a black institution to thrive and prosper despite repeated efforts to close it, thus depriving students of all races, whom Kentucky State University now serves, of an opportunity to acquire a college education based on academic excellence.

Excerpt from Onward and Upward: A Centennial History of Kentucky State University 1886-1986 by John A. Hardin.

The University: A History of Public Service

From its modest beginnings as a small normal school for the training of black teachers for the black schools of Kentucky, Kentucky State University has grown and evolved to become the state’s unique, small, liberal studies institution, serving students without regard to their race, age, sex, national origin, or economic status.

The University was chartered in May 1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons, only the second state-supported institution of higher learning in Kentucky. During the euphoria of Frankfort’s 1886 centennial celebration, when vivid recollections of the Civil War remained, the city’s 4,000 residents were keenly interested in having the new institution located in Frankfort. Toward that end, the city donated $1,500-a considerable amount in 1886 dollars-and a site on a scenic bluff overlooking the town. This united display of community enthusiasm and commitment won the day. The new college was located in Frankfort in spite of competition from several other cities.

Recitation Hall (now Jackson Hall), the college’s first building, was erected in 1887. The new school opened on October 11, 1887 with three teachers, 55 students, and John H. Jackson as president.

In 1890 the institution became a land grant college, and the departments of home economics, agriculture, and mechanics were added to the school’s curriculum. The school produced its first graduating class of five students in the spring of that year. A high school was organized in 1893. This expansion continued into the twentieth century in both name and program. In 1902, the name was changed to Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons. The name was changed again in 1926 to Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons. In the early 1930's the high school was discontinued, and in 1938 the school was named the Kentucky State College for Negroes. The term ''for Negroes'' was dropped in 1952. Kentucky State College became a university in 1972, and in 1973 the first graduate students enrolled in its School of Public Affairs.

Over the past 20 years more than 30 new structures or major building expansions have enhanced Kentucky State University’s 511-acre campus, which includes a 203-acre agricultural research farm.

Kentucky State University is the smallest of Kentucky’s public universities with an enrollment of approximately 2,300 students and 130 full-time instructional faculty members.

Kentucky State's Timeline

from Wikipedia:
The school was chartered in 1886 and opened in 1887 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons. In 1890, the state of Kentucky gave the school a land grant. In 1902, the name of the school was changed to the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons, which was changed again in 1926 to the Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons. In 1938, the school became known as the Kentucky State College for Negroes (the "for Negroes" was dropped in 1952). The college became a full-fledged university in 1972. In 1973, Kentucky State offered its first graduate programs.

An adjoining high school was in operation from the late 1890s until the early 1930s.


Notable alumni
Ersa Hines Poston, first black person to head the United States Civil Service Commission

Moneta Sleet Jr., photographer for Ebony, won a Pulitzer Prize for his picture of Coretta Scott King at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Honeykiss1974

Lincoln University in Pennsylvania
http://www.lincoln.edu

About Lincoln
A Legacy of Producing Leaders

Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was chartered in April 1854 as Ashmun Institute. As Horace Mann Bond, ‘23, the eighth president of Lincoln University, so eloquently cites in the opening chapter of his book, Education for Freedom, this was “the first institution found anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African descent.” The story of Lincoln University goes back to the early years of the 19th century and to the ancestors of its founder, John Miller Dickey, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson. The Institute was renamed Lincoln University in 1866 after President Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln is surrounded by the rolling farmlands and wooded hilltops of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. Its campus is conveniently located on Baltimore Pike, about one mile off US Route 1 – 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia, 15 miles northwest of Newark, Delaware, 25 miles west of Wilmington, Delaware, and 55 miles north of Baltimore, Maryland.

Since its inception, Lincoln has attracted an interracial and international enrollment from the surrounding community, region, and around the world. The University admitted women students in 1952, and formally associated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1972 as a state-related, coeducational university. Lincoln currently enrolls approximately 2,000 students.

Located in southern Chester County, Lincoln is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and offers academic programs in undergraduate study in the arts, sciences as well as graduate programs in human services, reading, education, mathematics, and administration. The University is proud of its faculty for the high quality of their teaching, research, and service, and of its alumni, among the most notable of whom are: Langston Hughes, ‘29, world-acclaimed poet; Thurgood Marshall, ‘30, first African-American Justice of the US Supreme Court; Hildrus A. Poindexter, ‘24, internationally known authority on tropical diseases; Roscoe Lee Browne, ‘46, author and widely acclaimed actor of stage and screen; Jacqueline Allen, ‘74, judge for the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia; and Eric C. Webb, ‘91, author, poet and editor-in-chief of Souls of People.

Many of Lincoln's international graduates have gone on to become outstanding leaders in their countries, including Nnamdi Azikiwe, ‘30, Nigeria's first president; Kwame Nkrumah, ‘39, first president of Ghana; Rev. James Robinson, ‘35, founder of Crossroads Africa, which served as the model for the Peace Corps; and Sibusio Nkomo, Ph.D., ‘81, chairperson, National Policy Institute of South Africa.

During the first one hundred years of its existence, Lincoln graduated approximately 20 percent of the Black physicians and more than 10 percent of the Black attorneys in the United States. Its alumni have headed over 35 colleges and universities and scores of prominent churches. At least 10 of its alumni have served as United States ambassadors or mission chiefs. Many are federal, state and municipal judges, and several have served as mayors or city managers.


Mississippi Valley State University
http://www.mvsu.edu/

The institution, which opened in 1950, was created by the Mississippi state legislature as Mississippi Vocational College. The college changed its name in 1964 to Mississippi Valley State College and was granted university status in 1974.

The legislature anticipated that legal segregation of public education was in danger (and would in four years be declared unconstitutional in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education) and created the institution, hoping that its existence would draw African-American applicants who might have otherwise applied to attend Mississippi's premier whites-only institutions -- the University of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, and the University of Southern Mississippi. Creating separate institutions of higher learning for Mississippi's black population, the state's political leaders hoped, would help ease the pressure to integrate the state's premier universities.

To attract the support of those who opposed any government action to provide higher education to blacks, those proposing creation of M.V.C. used the term "vocational" to imply that the institution's main purpose would be to train blacks to take on blue-collar jobs.

The original legislative proposal would have located M.V.C. in Greenwood, but the white leadership of that city did not like the idea of hosting an institution that would attract young, ambitious blacks to the area. Thus, the proposed site was moved to Itta Bena. Even that town, however, objected to too close a proximity of a black institution, so the final site was chosen to place the college away from the downtown area, on cheap, uncultivatable land.

The first president of the institution, J. H. White, an African-American, sought to reassure the state's political leaders that the institution would not be a center of black agitation. One of his symbolic acts was to name the college's two most important buildings after prominent segregationists Walter Sillers Jr. and Fielding Wright. After the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown decision, state Gov. Hugh White invited 90 black leaders to support the idea of voluntary segregation of public education in Mississippi. President White was one of only two at the meeting to support the governor. When a young black man, Clyde Kennard, applied to the all-white Mississippi Southern College, President White tried to dissuade him. (Kennard was later framed for his attempts to attend white universities.)

In 1964, Mississippi Vocational College was renamed Mississippi Valley State College.

In 1970, a student boycott was organized to protest President White's administration of the institution. Half the enrolled students of the institution -- about 900 -- were arrested.

In the early 1970s, civil rights leaders continued to protest the inequalities in higher education opportunities offered to whites and blacks in Mississippi. In an effort to defuse some of the criticism, Gov. Bill Waller proposed changing the names of three black institutions from "colleges" to "universities." Thus, in 1974, the institution was renamed again, as Mississippi Valley State University.

In 1998, the university renamed many of the buildings on campus, except for the ones named after Sillers, Wright, and J. H. White.


Famous Alumni
Ashley Ambrose - NFL cornerback
Jerry Rice - former NFL wide receiver
Willie Totten - Head Coach

Langston University in Langston, OK

http://www.lunet.edu/

from HBCU Network:
The year Oklahoma became a state, November 16, 1907, Langston City was officially established. Promoted by its founders, one of whom was a prominent African American, Edwin P. McCabe, who was influential in the selection of the site of Langston University, the city of Langston had a population of 600 and 25 retail businesses by 1892, the year in which a common school was built and had an enrollment of 135.

Since African Americans were not permitted to attend any of the institutions of higher education in Oklahoma Territory, black citizens appeared before the Oklahoma Industrial School and College Commission in July 1892 to petition that Langston have a college. Eventually, Territorial Governor William Gary Renfrow, who had voted a civil rights bill that would have disregarded segregation, proposed a reform bill establishing the university, which was founded as a land grant college through the Morrill Act of 1890 and officially established by House Bill 151 on March 12, 1897, as the Colored Agricultural and Normal University.

The purpose of the university was to instruct 'both male and female Colored persons in the art of teaching various branches which pertain to a common school education and in such higher education as may be deemed advisable, and in the fundamental laws of the United States in the rights and duties of citizens in the agricultural, mechanical and industrial arts.' One stipulation was that the land on which the college would be built would have to be purchased by the citizens. Picnics, auctions, and bake sales were held to raise money, and the land was purchased within a year by black settlers determined to provide higher education for their children.

On September 3, 1898, the school was opened in a Presbyterian Church in Langston with an initial budget of $5,000. The first president was Dr. Inman E. Page (1898-1915), the son of a former slave who had purchased freedom for himself and his family. During the Page administration the campus expanded to 160 acres, enrollment increased from 41 to 650 and faculty from 4 to 35, classroom buildings and dormitories were constructed, and the curriculum was strengthened.

from Brittanica.com
Langston University
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Langston, Oklahoma, U.S. It is Oklahoma's only historically black institution of higher learning and has land-grant status. It includes schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Behavioral Sciences, Agricultural and Applied Sciences, and Nursing and Health Professions. Graduate programs lead to a Master of Education degree or a Master of Science in rehabilitation counseling. The Airway Science program trains aviation personnel, including pilots, in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration and Oklahoma State University. The university maintains its Urban Centers in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Total enrollment is approximately 4,000.

Langston University was established by Oklahoma's territorial legislature in 1897 as the Colored Agricultural and Normal (teacher-training) University. It was coeducational from the outset. African American settlers raised money to buy land for the school, which opened in a Presbyterian church in 1898. It was renamed Langston University (for African American educator and public official John Mercer Langston) in 1941. The E (Kika) de la Garza Institute for Goat Research is located there, and the university also conducts extension and research programs on topics such as grasslands resources.



Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama

http://www.oakwood.edu/

from HBCU Network:
Since 1896, Oakwood College has provided students the opportunity to enter its halls of learning in preparation for service to community, country, and the world. Oakwood College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, Telephone number 404-679-4501) to award associate and baccalaureate degrees; and the Adventist Accrediting Association of the Department of Education of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The college also offers programs that are accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, Council of Social Work Education, and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. Additional programs are approved by the Alabama Board of Nursing, Alabama State Department of Education, American Dietetics Association, and the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Department of Education.

In 1932 Oakwood College made history by naming J. L. Moran as the school’s first Black president. Moran then tapped Moseley to be the school’s first Black chair of the Theology and Religion Department. He also became the first Black pastor at the Oakwood College church.


Notable Students
Brian McKnight attended but was kicked out :(
Take 6

Bowie State University

http://bowie1.mediastudio.tv/default.asp

Bowie State University is an outgrowth of the first school opened in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 9, 1865, by the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of Colored People, which was organized on November 28, 1864, to engage in its self-appointed mission on a statewide basis. The first normal school classes sponsored by the Baltimore Association were held in the African Baptist Church, located on the corner of Calvert and Saratoga streets. In 1868, with the aid of a grant from the Freedmen's Bureau, the Baltimore Association purchased from the Society of Friends a building at Courtland and Saratoga streets for the relocation of its normal school until 1883, when it was reorganized solely as a normal school to train Negro teachers

The Baltimore Normal School had received occasional financial support from the city of Baltimore since 1870 and from the State since 1872. In 1871, it received a legacy from the Nelson Wells Fund. This fund, established before Wells" death in February 1843, provided for the education of freed Negro children in the State of Maryland. On April 8, 1908, at the request of the Baltimore
Normal School, which desired permanent status and funding as an institution for the education of Negro teachers, the State Legislature authorized its Board of Education to assume control of the school. The same law re-designated the institution as Normal School No. 3. Subsequently, it was relocated on a 187-acre tract in Prince George’s County, and by 1914 it was known as the Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie. A two-year professional curriculum in teacher education, which started in 1925, was expanded to a three-year program. In 1935, a four-year program for the training of elementary school teachers began, and the school was renamed Maryland State Teachers College at Bowie. In 1951, with the approval of the State Board of Education, its governing body, Bowie State expanded its program to train teachers for junior high schools. Ten years later, permission was granted to institute a teacher-training program for secondary education. In 1963, a liberal arts program was started and the name was changed to Bowie State College.

In 1970, Bowie State College was authorized to grant its first graduate degree, the Master of Education. A significant milestone in the development of graduate studies at Bowie State College was achieved with the Board of Trustees’ approval of the establishment of the Adler-Dreikurs Institute of Human Relations in 1975. On July 1, 1988, Bowie State College officially became Bowie State University, a change reflecting significant growth in the Institution’s programs, enrollment, and service to the area. On that same day, the University also became one of 11 constituent institutions of the newly-formed University System of Maryland.

Bowie State University, in 1995, won an 11-year, $27 million award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/National Science Foundation to become one of only six national Model Institutions for Excellence in science, engineering, and mathematics.

During 2001-2004, three state-of-the-art buildings, The Center for Learning and Technology, a $21M high-tech building, the Computer Science Building, and The Christa McAuliffe Residential Community were completed.

Is a charter member of NCATE, Bowie State became one of the first institutions in the country to receive national accreditation by NCATE in 1954 and since then has maintained that accreditation for 50 consecutive years. May 2005, the University graduated its first class of candidates who earned a Doctorate of Education in Education Leadership (Ed. D.) and the first class of four-year nursing students from the School of Professional Studies.

Currently the University offers a wide array of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Bowie State University continues to make strides with the matriculation of more than 5,500 undergraduate and graduate students; and remains among the top five producers nationally of African Americans earning master's degrees in technology, science and mathematics. Of the University's 165 full-time faculty, more than 75 percent hold doctoral or terminal degrees in their fields of expertise.

Notable Alumni
Toni Braxton

Christa McAuliffe: NASA Astronaut

Joanne Benson: Maryland State Assembly Delegate

James Proctor, Jr.: Maryland State Assembly Delegate

James L. Walls, Jr.: Politician



Cheyney University

http://www.cheyney.edu/

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Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, located in Cheyney, Pennsylvania was originally founded as the Institute for Colored Youth in 1837 by Richard Humphreys. Ed Bradley, reporter for the news magazine "60 Minutes", graduated from Cheyney in 1964.

It is the oldest of the historically African-American colleges and universities in the United States. Humphreys was a Quaker philanthropist who bequeathed $10,000.00, one tenth of his estate, to establish a school for “the descendants of the African race”. Humphreys changed his will to include this bequest in 1829 after race riots occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Institute for Colored Youth provided educational opporunities to many African Americans in the Philadelphia area, and also employed the first female African American school principal, Fanny Jackson Coppin.

The school began in Philadelphia and moved in 1902 to George Cheyney’s farm, twenty-five miles west of the city. The name of the school was changed several times; to Cheyney State Teachers College in 1913, the State Normal School at Cheyney in 1921, and Cheyney State College in 1959. The current name was adopted when the school joined the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education in 1983.

Founded in 1837 by Reverend William Moshwan Walker, the University today is composed of buildings and grounds from a number of former private mansions.


Key Historic Dates

167 Years of Excellence

Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC

http://www.claflin.edu/


Claflin University, founded in 1869 as Claflin University, is the oldest historically Black college or university in South Carolina. It was also the first college in the state to welcome all students regardless of race or gender.

Our History

Claflin University's origins can be traced to 1866, when the Baker Biblical Institute was founded in Charleston, South Carolina. On April 2 of that year, working out of a building owned by the Institute, leaders of the Methodist Church organized the South Carolina Mission Conference. Mission Conference members, including Samuel Weston, Joseph Sasportas, and other prominent churchmen, played a crucial role in the December 18, 1869 founding of Claflin University. Boston philanthropist Lee Claflin and his son, Massachusetts Governor William Claflin, provided the initial financing for the purchase of the Orangeburg Female Academy, on whose grounds the new University was established. Dr. Alonzo Webster, who became Claflin's first president, and the Reverend T. Willard Lewis also played prominent roles in securing this site.

In 1871 Dr. Webster oversaw the merger of Claflin University and the Baker Biblical Institute, which was moved to Orangeburg. As a result of legislation in the South Carolina General Assembly, Claflin was affiliated with the South Carolina State Agricultural and Mechanical Institute (later to become South Carolina State University) from 1875 to 1896.

Since 1872, Claflin has been offering instruction in the arts and sciences, as well as in crafts and a variety of pre-professional fields. Teacher training has always been a vital aspect of the Claflin mission. The first class in the University's Normal Department (for teacher education) graduated in 1879. The College Department awarded its first bachelor's degree in 1882.

Reverend Edward Cooke served as Claflin's second president from 1872 to 1884. He was succeeded by Reverend Dr. Lewis M. Dunton (1884-1922), Dr. Joseph B. Randolph (1922- 1945), Dr. John J. Seabrook (1945-1955), Dr. Hubert V. Manning (1956-1984), and Reverend Dr. Oscar A. Rogers, Jr. (1984-1994). Dr. Henry N. Tisdale, a 1965 graduate of Claflin, became the University's eighth president on June 1, 1994.

The church leaders who established Claflin stipulated that it would welcome students of diverse backgrounds, regardless of race or gender. Nowhere in South Carolina was there another institution with Claflin's forward-looking scope and purpose. And there still isn't.




LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, TN

http://www.loc.edu/index.htm

The merger of LeMoyne College and Owen College in 1968 joined two institutions, which had rich traditions as private, church-related colleges that have historically served Black students, founded and developed to provide higher education to students in the Mid-South area.

LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School opened officially in 1871, but it actually began in 1862 when the American Missionary Association sent Lucinda Humphrey to open an elementary school for freedmen and runaway slaves to Camp Shiloh soon after the occupation of Memphis by federal troops under General Ulysses S. Grant. The School was moved to Memphis in 1863, but was destroyed by fire in the race riots, which followed the withdrawal of federal troops in 1866. Lincoln Chapel, as the school was then known, was rebuilt and reopened in 1867 with 150 students and six teachers, but the small school was beset by financial problems.

In 1870, Dr. Francis J. LeMoyne, a Pennsylvania doctor and abolitionist, donated $20,000 to the American Missionary Association to build an elementary and secondary school for prospective teachers. The first years were difficult ones, primarily, because of the toll that the yellow fever epidemic took on school personnel, but under the leadership of the third principal, Andrew J. Steele, the institution experienced three decades of growth and development.

In 1914, the school was moved from Orleans Street to its present site on Walker Avenue. In that same year, the first building, Steele Hall, was erected on the new campus. LeMoyne developed rapidly; it became a junior college in 1924 and a four-year college in 1930, chartered by the State of Tennessee just four years later.

Owen College began in 1947, when the Tennessee Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention bought property on Vance Avenue to build a junior college. After several years of planning, the school opened in 1954 as S. A. Owen Junior College, named in honor of a distinguished religious and civic leader, but the name was later changed to Owen Junior College. The merger of Owen and LeMoyne Colleges in 1968 joined two religious traditions at the same time that it reinforced the institutions' shared purpose of combining a liberal arts education with career training in a Christian setting.

From the President's Welcome
Among our distinguished graduates are Memphis Mayor W.W. Herenton; civil rights activist and former NAACP Executive Director Benjamin Hooks and renowned scholar and teacher C. Eric Lincoln.

Tuskegee University

http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/categ...&nav=menu200_1

Welcome to Tuskegee University- "the pride of the swift, growing south." Founded in a one room shanty, near Butler Chapel AME Zion Church, thirty adults represented the first class - Dr. Booker T. Washington the first teacher. The founding date was July 4, 1881, authorized by House Bill 165.

We should give credit to George Campbell, a former slave owner, and Lewis Adams, a former slave, tinsmith and community leader, for their roles in the founding of the University. Adams had not had a day of formal education but could read and write. In addition to being a tinsmith, he was also a shoemaker and harness-maker. And he could well have been experienced in other trades. W. F. Foster was a candidate for re-election to the Alabama Senate and approached Lewis Adams about the support of African-Americans in Macon County.

What would Adams want, Foster asked, in exchange for his (Adams) securing the black vote for him (Foster). Adams could well have asked for money, secured the support of blacks voters and life would have gone on as usual. But he didn’t. Instead, Adams told Foster he wanted an educational institution - a school - for his people. Col. Foster carried out his promise and with the assistance of his colleague in the House of Representatives, Arthur L. Brooks, legislation was passed for the establishment of a "Negro Normal School in Tuskegee."

A $2,000 appropriation, for teachers’ salaries, was authorized by the legislation. Lewis Adams, Thomas Dryer, and M. B. Swanson formed the board of commissioners to get the school organized. There was no land, no buildings, no teachers only State legislation authorizing the school. George W. Campbell subsequently replaced Dryer as a commissioner. And it was Campbell, through his nephew, who sent word to Hampton Institute in Virginia looking for a teacher.

Booker T. Washington got the nod and he made the Lewis Adams dream happen. He was principal of the school from July 4, 1881, until his death in 1915. He was not 60 years old when he died. Initial space and building for the school was provided by Butler Chapel AME Zion Church not far from this present site. Not long after the founding, however, the campus was moved to "a 100 acre abandoned plantation" which became the nucleus of the present site.

Tuskegee rose to national prominence under the leadership of its founder, Dr. Washington, who headed the institution from 1881 until his death at age 59 in 1915. During his tenure, institutional independence was gained in 1892, again through legislation, when Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute was granted authority to act independent of the state of Alabama.

Dr. Washington, a highly skilled organizer and fund-raiser, was counsel to American Presidents, a strong advocate of Negro business, and instrumental in the development of educational institutions throughout the South. He maintained a lifelong devotion to his institution and to his home - the South. Dr. Washington is buried on the campus of Tuskegee University near the University Chapel.

Robert R. Moton was president of Tuskegee from 1915 to 1935. Under his leadership, the Tuskegee Veteran’s Administration Hospital was created on land donated by the Institute. The Tuskegee V.A. Hospital , opened in 1923, was the first and only staffed by Black professionals. Dr. Moton was succeeded in 1935 by Dr. Frederick D. Patterson. Dr. Patterson oversaw the establishment of the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tuskegee . Today, nearly 75 percent of Black veterinarians in America are Tuskegee graduates.

Dr. Patterson also brought the Tuskegee Airmen flight training program to the Institute. The all-Black squadrons of Tuskegee Airmen were highly decorated World War II combat veterans and forerunners of the modern day Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Patterson is also credited with founding the United Negro College Fund, which to date has raised more than $1 billion for student aid. Dr. Luther H. Foster became president of Tuskegee Institute in 1953.

Dr. Foster led Tuskegee through the transformational years of the Civil Rights Movement. Student action, symbolized by student martyr and SNCC member Sammy Younge, as well as legal action represented by Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960), attests to Tuskegee ’s involvement in The Movement.

Current President, Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, began his tenure in 1981. Under his leadership, the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care and the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site were launched. The General Daniel " Chappie " James Center for Aerospace Science and Health Education was constructed - the largest athletic arena in the SIAC. The Kellogg Conference Center , one of 12 worldwide, was completed as a renovation and expansion of historic Dorothy Hall.

Tuskegee attained University status in 1985 and has since begun offering its first doctoral programs in integrative biosciences and materials science and engineering. The College of Business and Information Sciences was established and professionally accredited, and the College of Engineering, Architecture and Physical Sciences was expanded to include the only Aerospace Engineering department at an HBCU.

At the time of Washington’s death, there were 1,500 students, a $2 million endowment, 40 trades, (we would call them majors today), 100 fully-equipped buildings, and about 200 faculty. From 30 adult students in a one room shanty, we have today grown to more than 3,000 students on a campus (the main campus, farm and forest land) that includes some 5,000 acres and more than 70 buildings.

Dedicated in 1922, the Booker T. Washington Monument, called "Lifting the Veil," stands at the center of campus. The inscription at its base reads, "He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry." For Tuskegee , the process of unveiling is continuous and lifelong.


Notable Alumni
In addition ot Dr. George Washington Carver, Claude McKay studied at the University briefly in 1912. Musician Lionel Richie is a Tuskegee graduate. New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin also earned his undergraduate degree there.

Dr. Benjamin Payton, graduate of South Carolina State University, is the fifth president of Tuskegee University and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha

South Carolina State University

http://www.scsu.edu

Founded in 1896 as the state's sole public college for black youth, SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY has played a key role in the education of African-Americans in the state and nation. As a land-grant institution, it struggled to provide agricultural and mechanical training to generations of black youngsters. Through its extension program, it sent farm and home demonstration agents into rural counties to provide knowledge and information to impoverished black farm families.

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The University has educated scores of teachers for the public schools. It provided education in sciences, literature, and history. The support of the Rosenwald Fund and the General Education Board helped the institution survive the Depression. After World War II, the state legislature created a graduate program and a law school at SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY to prevent black students from enrolling in the University of South Carolina's graduate and legal education programs. The legislature also dramatically increased funding at the college in an effort to make "separate but equal" a reality in higher education in South Carolina. During the 1950s and 1960s hundreds of S. C. STATE students participated in local civil rights demonstrations and were arrested. In 1968 three young men were slain and 27 wounded on the campus by state highway patrolmen in the Orangeburg Massacre.


Since 1966, STATE has been open to white students and faculty, but it has largely retained its mission and character as an historically black institution. In 1971, the agricultural program was terminated and the college farm was transformed into a community recreation center consisting of a golf course as well as soccer and baseball fields. Today there are nearly 5000 students majoring in a wide range of programs that include agribusiness, accounting, art, English, and drama as well as fashion merchandising, physics, psychology, and political science.

Contributed by William C. Hine
Department of Political Science and History


Notable Alumni
Harry Carson - New York Giants, will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006

James E. Clyburn - South Carolina Representative in the United States Congress

Dr. Leroy Davis - former S.C. State president (1995-2003)

Dr. Andrew Hugine - S.C. State president (2003-Present) President's Bio

Deacon Jones - Los Angeles Rams / San Diego Chargers / Washington Redskins; Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980

Benjamin Mays- Educator, former S.C. State teacher, former president of Morehouse College in Atlanta

Dr. M. Maceo Nance - former S.C. State president (1968-1986)
Robert Porcher - Detroit Lions

Richard G. Shaw - first African-American Insurance Commissioner for West Virginia

Donnie Shell - Pittsburgh Steelers

Essie Mae Washington-Williams- Strom Thurmond's African-American daughter

Thanks for giving SC State and Clalfin their props.

Also, they are right next door to each other.;)

Rep. Clyburn is also an Omega.:D

The furthest HBCU north is Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, NY.

Morehouse College

http://www.morehouse.edu/index.php

History of Morehouse College
In 1867, two years after the Civil War ended, Augusta Institute was established in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga. Founded in 1787, Springfield Baptist is the oldest independent African American church in the United States. The school’s primary purpose was to prepare black men for the ministry and teaching. Today, Augusta Institute is Morehouse College, located on a 66-acre campus near historic West End in Atlanta. The College enjoys an international reputation for producing leaders who have influenced national and world history.

Augusta Institute was founded by The Rev. William Jefferson White, an Augusta Baptist minister and cabinetmaker, with the support of the Rev. Richard C. Coulter, a former slave from Augusta, Ga., and The Rev. Edmund Turney, organizer of the National Theological Institute for educating freedmen in Washington, D.C. The Rev. Dr. Joseph T. Robert was appointed the Institute’s first president by William Jefferson White.

In 1879, Augusta Institute was invited by The Rev. Frank Quarles to move to the basement of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta and changed its name to Atlanta Baptist Seminary. Later, the Seminary moved to a four-acre lot near the site on which the Richard B. Russell Federal Building now stands in downtown Atlanta. Following Robert’s death in 1884, David Foster Estes, a professor at the Seminary, served as the institution’s first acting president.

In 1885, when Dr. Samuel T. Graves was named the second president, the institution relocated to its current site in Atlanta’s West End community. The campus, which has grown from 14 to 66 acres, encompasses a Civil War historic site, a gift of John D. Rockefeller, at which Confederate soldiers staged a determined resistance to Union forces during the famous siege of Atlanta. In 1897, Atlanta Baptist Seminary became Atlanta Baptist College, during the administration of Dr. George Sale, a Canadian who served as the third and youngest president from 1890 to 1906.

A new era, characterized by expanded academic offerings and increased physical facilities, dawned with the appointment of Dr. John Hope as the fourth president in 1906. A pioneer in the field of education, he was the College’s first African American president. Hope, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, encouraged an intellectual climate comparable to what he had known at his alma mater and openly challenged Booker T. Washington’s view that education for African Americans should emphasize vocational and agricultural skills.

Atlanta Baptist College, already a leader in preparing African Americans for teaching and the ministry, expanded its curriculum and established the tradition of educating leaders for all areas of American life. In addition to attracting a large number of talented faculty and administrators, Hope contributed much to the institution we know today. Upon the death of the founder in 1913, Atlanta Baptist College was named Morehouse College in honor of Henry L. Morehouse, the corresponding secretary of the Northern Baptist Home Mission Society.

Dr. Samuel H. Archer became the fifth President of the College in 1931and headed the institution during the Great Depression. He gave the school its colors, maroon and white, the same as those of his alma mater, Colgate University. Archer retired for health reasons in 1937. Dr. Charles D. Hubert served as the second acting president until 1940, when Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays became the sixth president of Morehouse College.

A nationally noted educator and a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mays is recognized as the architect of Morehouse’s international reputation for excellence in scholarship, leadership, and service. During the presidency of Mays, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Bates College and the University of Chicago, the number of faculty members grew and the percentage holding doctoral degrees increased from two to 34 out of 65 teachers. The College earned global recognition as scholars from other countries joined the faculty, an increasing number of international students enrolled, and the fellowships and scholarships for study abroad became available. Morehouse received full accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1957, and Mays’ 14-year effort to win a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Morehouse was realized in 1968. Charles E. Merrill served as chairman of the College’s board of trustees.

In 1967, Dr. Hugh M. Gloster, class of 1931, became the first alumnus to serve as seventh president of the College. Under his leadership, Morehouse strengthened its board of trustees, conducted a successful $20-million fundraising campaign, expanded the endowment to more than $29 million, and added 12 buildings to the campus, including the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel. During Gloster’s tenure, Morehouse established a dual-degree program in engineering with the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Michigan and Boston University. Dr. Gloster founded the Morehouse School of Medicine, which became an independent institution in 1981. He appointed Dr. Louis W. Sullivan its first dean, who became its first president.

In 1987, Dr. Leroy Keith, Jr., class of 1961, was named eighth president of Morehouse. During the Keith administration, the College’s endowment increased to more than $60 million, and faculty salaries and student scholarships significantly increased. Construction of the Nabrit-Mapp-McBay science building was completed, the Thomas Kilgore Jr. Campus Center and two dormitories were built, and Hope Hall was rebuilt. In 1994, Nima A. Warfield, a member of the graduating class that year, was named a Rhodes Scholar, the first from a historically black college.

In October 1994, Dr. Wiley A. Perdue, a member of the class of 1957 and vice president for business affairs, was appointed third acting president of Morehouse. Under his leadership, national memorials were erected to honor Dr. Benjamin E. Mays and internationally noted theologian Dr. Howard W. Thurman, class of 1923. Perdue launched an initiative to upgrade the College’s academic and administrative computer information systems. He also finalized plans to build a dormitory and undertook construction of a 5,700-seat gymnasium to provide a basketball venue for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.

On June 1, 1995, Dr. Walter E. Massey, class of 1958, was named ninth president of Morehouse. A noted physicist, former senior vice president and provost of the University of California System, and former director of the National Science Foundation, Massey has called on the Morehouse community to renew its longstanding commitment to excellence in scholarship. Under his leadership, Morehouse has embraced the challenge of preparing for the 21st century and the goal of becoming one of the nation’s best liberal arts colleges. Eighty-two percent of the faculty today has earned doctorates.

Academically, Morehouse has expanded its dual-degree master’s program in natural sciences with the Georgia Institute of Technology to include other institutions and social science majors, launched the Center for Excellence in Science, Engineering and Mathematics with a $6.7-million U.S. Department of Defense grant, and established a new African American studies program.

The Department of Economics and Business Administration has earned accreditation from the American Association of Schools and Colleges of Business (AASCB), resulting in Morehouse being one of only a handful of liberal arts colleges in the country that have both AASCB accreditation and a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The College has also earned its re-accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

Morehouse recently established a new Center for International Studies, which has been named for former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, and a new Leadership Development Center, which includes diverse programs that foster leadership skills and encourage community involvement.

Under President Massey’s leadership, Morehouse has also improved its physical infrastructure. Campus enhancements include improvements to dormitories, the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, and classroom buildings, major renovations to the Archer Hall Student Center and Chivers-Lane Dining Hall, and the construction of Davidson House-Center for Excellence, the Technology Connector, the Morehouse Leadership Center, a five hundred car parking deck, and campus bookstore.

In 1996, Morehouse launched The Campaign for a New Century, the most ambitious campaign in the history of the College. With a goal of $105 million, The Campaign for a New Century safeguards our legacy, expands our vision, and enriches our world.

As Morehouse celebrates 137 years of challenge and change, the College continues to deliver an exceptional educational experience that today meets the intellectual, moral, and social needs of students representing more than 40 states and 18 countries – a unique institution dedicated, as always, to producing outstanding men and extraordinary leaders to serve humanity with a spiritual consciousness.


Notable Alumni
Lerone Bennett Jr. '49
Executive editor of Ebony magazine

Sanford D. Bishop Jr. '68
U.S. congressman (Georgia)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Bronner '40*
Founder of Bronner Brothers Beauty Cosmetics

Calvin O. Butts III '72 ((KAPPA ALPHA PSI))
Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York, NY; President, SUNY Old Westbury Campus

Herman Cain '67
Founder and CEO, T.H.E., Inc.
(The Hermanator Experience, a motivational program for corporations and non-profits)

Peter Chatard '56
Distinguished plastic surgeon;
Founder of the Chatard Plastic Surgery Center and the Aesteem Outpatient Surgery Center, Seattle, Washington

Don Clendenon '56
New York Mets outfielder; 1969 World Series MVP

Julius Coles '64
Professor, Political Science, Morehouse College; Director, Andrew Young Center for International Affairs, Morehouse College; former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal

Samuel Dubois Cook '48
Former President, Dillard University; former member of the National Council on Humanities

Chester A. Davenport '63
Managing Director, Georgetown Partners; Chairman, GTE Consumer Services Corp.

Robert C. Davidson, Jr. '67
Chairman and CEO, Surface Protection Industries; Member, Morehouse College Board of Trustees

Abraham Davis '61
Professor of Political Science, Morehouse College; author

Henry W. Foster Jr. '54
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Meharry Medical School; physician; U.S. presidential advisor

Hugh M. Gloster Sr. '31
President Emeritus, Morehouse College 1967–1987

George W. Haley '49
U.S. Ambassador to Gambia, Africa; former U.S. Postal Rate Commissioner

Lt. Gen. James R. Hall '57, USA (Ret.)
Retired Lt. General U.S. Army; former Vice President for Campus Operations, Morehouse College

Earl F. Hilliard '64
U.S. Congressman (Alabama)

Donald R. Hopkins Sr. '62
Senior Consultant, Carter Presidential Center; Director, Guinea Worm Eradication Program

M. William Howard Jr. '68
Pastor, Bethany Baptist Church; (retired) President, New York Theological Seminary

Maynard H. Jackson '56*((ALPHA PHI ALPHA))
first African-American mayor of Atlanta

Samuel L. Jackson '72
Academy Award nominee, stage and film actor

Howard E. Jeter '70
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria; former U.S. Ambassador to Botswana

Arthur E. Johnson '68
President and COO, Lockheed Martin Information Services Sector

Jeh Johnson '79
Former General Counsel, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force

Mordecai Johnson '11*
Former President, Howard University, Washington, D.C., (first African-American to serve in this position)

Robert E. Johnson '48
Former Executive Editor and Associate Publisher, JET magazine

Leroy Keith Jr. '61
Chairman of the Board, Carson Products; former President, Morehouse College

Thomas Kilgore Jr. '31
Pastor Emeritus, Second Baptist Church

Martin Luther King Jr. '48*((ALPHA PHI ALPHA))
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights leader

Shelton "Spike" Lee '79
Filmmaker and President, 40 Acres & A Mule

Michael L. Lomax '68
President, Dillard University; former President, The National Faculty

Walter E. Massey '58
President, Morehouse College; former Director, National Science Foundation; former Dean, College at Brown University; former Provost, University of California System

Richard I. McKinney '31
Former President, Storer College; Chairman, Philosophy Department, Morgan State University

Edwin C. Moses '78
Olympic gold medalist and financial consultant

Otis Moss Jr. '56 ((ALPHA PHI ALPHA))
Pastor, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio; Chairman, Morehouse College Board of Trustees

James M. Nabrit '23*
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; second African-American president of Howard University

Samuel M. Nabrit '25
Former member, Atomic Energy Commission; former president of Texas Southern University, first African American to receive the Ph.D. from Brown University

Bill G. Nunn III '76
stage and film actor

Major R. Owens '56
U.S. congressman (New York)

Roderic I. Pettigrew '72
physician and nuclear physicist

David Satcher '63 ((OMEGA PSI PHI))
Director, National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine; former U.S. Surgeon General

Maceo K. Sloan '71
Chairman and CEO, Sloan Financial Group Inc.

Louis W. Sullivan '54
President, Morehouse School of Medicine; former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

Roy Terry '66 and Rudolph Terry '69
President and Executive Vice President, Terry Manufacturing Co., Atlanta, GA

Howard Thurman '23*
internationally known theologian and author

Nima A. Warfield '94
First African-American Rhodes Scholar from a historically black college or university

Charles Vert Willie '48
Distinguished Professor of Education and Urban Studies, Harvard University

* = deceased

LOL @ me as a notable alum.

I can't let the article forget other alum such as Whitney M. Young(who basically turned the Urban League into a civil rights fighting machine) and Midnight Star!!!

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:cool: I knew there had to be more than that from KY State. I got the list of alums from Wikipedia.com

Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, TX


http://www.jarvis.edu/index.htm

JARVIS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

In the beginning, the Jarvis Christian College founders wanted to establish a school for Negro children, or as it was written in earlier documents – “To keep up and maintain a school for the elevation and education of the Negro race.” With that in mind, Major J.J. Jarvis, who was greatly influenced by his wife, Ida Van Zandt Jarvis, working in conjunction with the Christian Women’s Board of Missions, in 1910 donated 456 acres of land for a school. As Major Jarvis said many, many years ago about establishing the school –“The purpose will be to educate head, heart and hand and to produce useful citizens and earnest Christians.” The idea was to educate the head through education, the heart through religion, and the hand through hard work.

Today, 90 years later, Jarvis Christian College forefathers and mothers would be proud to know that, the small, liberal arts college that began in one room with 12 students is still educating students in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Now currently diverse, the mainstay of the institution remains providing a quality education for all students. The official seal bear the words Christianity, service, knowledge and industry, which are still contemporary concepts shared with students today. The current president, Dr. Sebetha Jenkins, the first woman president to lead the College, continues her strong leadership by educating students, in her own challenging way, and preparing them to become productive and useful citizens who will contribute positively to society. The mission of Jarvis Christian College is, “To prepare students intellectually, socially, and personally to function effectively in a global and technological society.

Jarvis Christian College has a rich history that can be summarized through the following historical highlights.

1904 -- The Negro Disciples of Christ in Texas, spearheaded by State Organizer Mrs. Mary Alphin, in conjunction with the Christian Women’s Board of Missions, begins plans for a school for Black youth.

1910 – Mrs. Ida Van Zandt Jarvis persuades her husband, Major J.J. Jarvis, to deed 456 acres of land near Hawkins to the Christian Women’s Board of Missions.

1912 – Mr. Thomas Buchanan Frost serves as the first superintendent. Mr. Charles A. Berry is the first principal.

1913 – Formal instruction program begins with an enrollment of 12 students, all in the elementary grades.

1914 – Mr. James Nelson Ervin begins his 24-year tenure as the first president. High school subjects are added and the campus becomes one of the few East Texas schools in which Black youth may complete a high school education, and the only accredited Black high school in the Hawkins area.

1916 – Junior college courses are offered and by 1927, they are included in the regular curriculum.

1928 – The school incorporates as a college, and in 1937 senior college courses are introduced.

1938 – Mr. Peter C. Washington begins his 11-year tenure as the second president. High school classes are eliminated as the school, with a state charter, moves into upper level instruction in the arts and sciences.

1939 – The Clarence Robinson Building is constructed. The building was remodeled in 1976 to become the current Alumni Heritage House.

1949 – Dr. John B. Eubanks is named executive vice president. He introduces a general education program, which hastens recognition of the College by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1950. Dr. Eubanks was named the third president of Jarvis in 1951, serving until 1953.

1953 – Dr. Cleo Walker Blackburn begins his 11-year tenure as the fourth president of the College. In those eleven years, several buildings were constructed, including the Ida V. Jarvis Student Center, the James Aborne Health Center, the Barton-Zeppa Agro-Industrial Buildings, and four dormitories.

1965 – The Olin Library and Communication Center opens.

1966 – Dr. James O. Perpener, Jr. becomes the fifth president of Jarvis and the first alumnus to be appointed to the office. The College achieves membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), and the Charles A. Meyer Science and Mathematics Center opens.

1970 – Four additional dormitories are completed and the Commons Building opens.

1971 – Dr. John Paul Jones becomes acting president and is appointed the sixth president in 1972.

1976 – Alumnus and former dean, Dr. Earl Wadsworth Rand, becomes the seventh president. The Advanced Summer Enrichment Program (ASEP) begins.

1978 – The Gladys A. Gill Early Childhood and Education Center opens. The Southern Christian Institute National Alumni and Ex-Students Association merges with the JCC National Alumni and Ex-Students Association.

1979 – The E. W. Rand Health, Physical Education and Recreation Center is dedicated soon after Dr. Rand retires.

1980 – Dr. Charles A. Berry, Jr., another alumnus, and son of the first principal, becomes the eighth president.

1983 – The J. N. Ervin Religion and Culture Center, consisting of the Smith-Howard Chapel and the Peoples-Dickson religion building, is completed.

1986 – Two additional residence halls are dedicated as well as a twelve-unit, student-parent apartment complex in 1988.

1988 – Dr. Julius Franklin Nimmons, Jr. is named ninth president. The first white fence at front of the campus is erected. During his administration, the College is involved in an extensive review and assessment of its total operation.

1991 – Dr. Sebetha Jenkins becomes the tenth and first woman president. She establishes a campus beautification project. The College receives reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in December 1993. Major renovations and capital improvements occurred in 1993 and 1994. Implementation of a campus-wide computer network system and distance/learning laboratory.

2000 -- Jarvis crosses the Digital Divide and becomes a completely wired campus with fully operable Internet capabilities. Jarvis also becomes technologically competitive with larger, majority institutions.

2002 – Jarvis celebrates its 90-year anniversary and the first 10-years of leadership under President Jenkins. The U.S. News and World Report lists Jarvis as one of the best small schools in America for the second consecutive year.

Re: FAMU and Morgan State
 

Hey CrimsonTide
Thanx for the great info about My Fair Morgan.
Much respect to ya.

Re: FAMU and Morgan State
 

Yay for Morgan State (yes I am just finding this..)

Fair Morgan......:D

Tennessee State University

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An early picture of the campus.

http://www.tnstate.edu/index.asp


A Brief History
Tennessee State University is a comprehensive urban coeducational land-grant university founded in 1912 in Nashville, Tenn. The 450-acre main campus, with more than 65 buildings, is located in a residential setting; the Avon Williams Campus is located downtown, near the center of the Nashville business and government district.

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 52 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 Nashville.

By virtue of a 1909 Act of the General Assembly, the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School was created, along with two other normal schools in the State of Tennessee, and began serving students on June 19, 1912. William Jasper Hale was appointed as head of the school. The original 247 students, along with the faculty and staff, operated as a family. Everyone worked to keep the institution running in its early years, from clearing rocks to harvesting crops to carrying chairs from class to class.

In 1922, the institution was raised to the status of four-year teachers' college and was empowered to grant the bachelor's degree. The first degrees were granted in June 1924. During the same year, the institution became known as the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal College. In 1927, "Normal" was dropped from the name of the College.

As the college grew in scope and stature throughout the 1920s and 1930s, so too did its impressive roster of alumni who embodied the school's charge: "Enter to learn, go forth to serve." In 1943, when William Hale retired after more than 30 years at the school's helm, an alumnus was chosen to succeed him. From 1943 until his retirement in 1968, Walter S. Davis led the institution through an era of tremendous growth, in areas as multifaceted as academics, facilities and worldwide recognition.


The General Assembly of 1941 authorized the State Board of Education to upgrade substantially the educational program of the College, which included the establishment of graduate studies leading to the master's degree. Graduate curricula were first offered in several branches of teacher education. The first master's degree was awarded by the College in June 1944.

Accreditation of the institution by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools was first obtained in 1946. In August 1951, the institution was granted university status by approval of the State Board of Education. The reorganization of the institution's educational program included the establishment of the Graduate School, the School of Arts & Sciences, the School of Education and the School of Engineering. Provisions were also made for the later addition of other schools in agriculture, business and home economics.


Prior to the redevelopment of campus in the 1990s, Centennial Blvd. ran through the center of campus. The Administration or "A" Building has been renovated as the Humanities Building.


The University (then known as Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University) was elevated to a full-fledged land-grant university status by approval of the State Board of Education in August 1958. The Land-Grant University program, as approved by the State Board of Education, included: the School of Agriculture & Home Economics, the Graduate School, the Division of Extension and Continuing Education, and the Department of Aerospace Studies. The School of Allied Health Professions and the School of Business were created in 1974. In addition, the School of Nursing was established in 1979. Currently, TSU consists of four colleges and four schools: The College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Education, the College of Engineering & Technology, the School of Agriculture & Home Economics, the School of Nursing, and the School of Graduate Studies.

In 1968, Andrew Torrence, also an alumnus, was named the university's third president. It was during his relatively brief tenure that the state legislature formally dropped "Agricultural & Industrial" from the university's name, which became Tennessee State University. Also, one of the most significant events of the Torrence presidency would not be fully resolved or have its impact felt for decades to come.


It was in 1968 that a TSU faculty member named Rita Sanders filed a lawsuit alleging a dual system of higher education in Tennessee based on race. An agreement in this case, which over the years evolved into Geier v. Tennessee, would not be reached for over 30 years.

When Frederick Humphries became TSU's president in 1975, Nashville still was home to two public four-year universities. On July 1, 1979, the former University of Tennessee at Nashville was merged with TSU as a result of a court order in the 1968 Geier v. Tennessee case. Humphries was the first TSU president to face the challenge of maintaining the balance between TSU's role as one of America's preeminent historically black universities and as an emerging comprehensive, national university.

The University of Tennessee at Nashville began in 1947 as an extension center of the University of Tennessee and offered only one year of extension credit until 1960, when it was empowered by the Board of Trustees of the University of Tennessee to offer two years of resident credit. Authorization was granted to extend this to three years of resident credit in 1963, even though degrees were awarded by the Knoxville unit.

To more fully realize its commitment as a full-function evening university, the UT-Nashville campus became a full-fledged, four-year degree-granting institution in 1971 upon successfully meeting the requirements for accreditation of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. During the same year, the General Assembly sanctioned the institution as a bona fide campus of the University of Tennessee, and the new University occupied its quarters in the building at the corner of Tenth and Charlotte avenues in downtown Nashville.

It was the erection of the above-mentioned building which gave rise to the decades-long litigation to "dismantle the dual system" of higher education in Tennessee. The litigation resulted in the merger of both institutions (ordered by Judge Frank Gray in February 1977), resulting in an expansion of the present-day Tennessee State University as a Tennessee Board of Regents institution.

The Geier v. Tennessee case went on for 32 years. Initially brought by Rita Sanders Geier, who taught at TSU, TSU professors Ray Richardson and H. Coleman McGinnis intervened as co-plantiffs in the lawsuit, as did the U.S. Department of Justice. After numerous court ordered-plans failed to produce progress on the matter, a mediated Consent Decree, agreed upon by all parties, was ordered by the court on Jan. 4, 2001.

TSU fifth president, Otis Floyd, assumed his post in 1987 following a year as interim president. He left the University when he was appointed chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents in 1990. Floyd kept TSU moving forward in both capacities, initiating efforts that resulted in the university receiving an unprecedented $112 million from the state general assembly for capital improvements in 1988. Under this plan, nearly all buildings on campus have been renovated, and eight new buildings have been constructed, including the Floyd-Payne Campus Center, the Ned McWherter Administration Building, the Wilma Rudolph Residence Center and the Performing Arts Center. Currently, the downtown campus is undergoing a renovation project.

Since 1991, James Hefner has served as president of Tennessee State University, just the sixth president in its illustrious 91-year history. Through its eight colleges and schools, the TSU of today offers 43 bachelor's degrees and 26 master's degrees, and awards doctoral degrees in six areas: biological sciences, computer information systems engineering, psychology, public administration, curriculum and instruction, and administration and supervision.

Now, in 2004, TSU is striving to meet the needs of future students with the first capital campaign in the university's history, a $50 million campaign to help meet the challenges of providing a sound educational foundation to a diverse student body with an even broader diversity of needs…all the while remembering the school's charge: "Enter to learn, go forth to serve."


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Pictures from the 1949 yearbook highlight the University's historical mission for agricultural and industrial training.

TSU Timeline

Noteable Alumni
Oprah Winfrey
Bobby Jones
Wilma Rudolph
Ed "Too Tall" Jones

Savannah State University
 

Savannah State University

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from Savannah State's site:

A Brief History of Savannah State University

Savannah State University, founded in 1890, is the oldest public historically black college in Georgia. Originally named Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, SSU was located in Athens, Georgia for several months in 1891. On October 7, 1891, SSU moved to its permanent location in Savannah. Major Richard R. Wright Sr. served as the institution's first president from 1891-1921.

Under the administration of the school's third President, Benjamin F. Hubert, the college became a full-time degree granting institution in 1928. Four years later, Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youths was renamed Georgia State College.

During the tenure of the college's fifth president, Dr. William K. Payne, the school became Savannah State College. In 1996, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia granted the school university status and the institution was renamed Savannah State University.

On July, 1 1997, Dr. Carlton E. Brown began his tenure as the University's 11th President. Dr. Brown seeks to preserve SSU's rich history while moving the University into the 21st Century.

President's of Savannah State University
Richard R. Wright, 1891-1921
Cyrus G. Wiley, 1921-1926
Benjamin F. Hubert, 1926-1947
James A. Colston, 1947-1949
William K. Payne, 1949-1963
Howard Jordan Jr. , 1963-1971
Prince A. Jackson Jr., 1971-1978
Wendell G. Rayburn, 1980-1988
William E. Gardner Jr., 1989-1991
John T. Wolfe Jr., 1993-1997
Carlton E. Brown, 1997- Present

Acting Presidents of Savannah State University
Timothy Meyers, 1949
Clyde W. Hall, 1978-1980
Wiley S. Bolden,1988-1989
Annette K. Brock, 1991-1993

Notable Alumni
Troy Hambrick- National Football League running back

Shannon Sharpe - 3-Time Super Bowl Champion Tight End

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