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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
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