Which State Schools are also HBCUs?

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
At the time HBCUs were born, they were needed because Blacks were not allowed to attend majority schools, i.e OHio State, Wittenberg...

Interesting you bring these up. They are my Parents-In-Laws Alma Maters. I was not aware that they didn't allow blacks anytime in the past -- but am not disputing your comment.

I found it interesting that, according to university history, the fourth black man to be awarded a college degree in the United States received his degree from my Alma Mater, Ohio University. His name was John Newton Templeton.

The following is from a history of O.U.

"So from this association came John Newton Templeton, the first African American in Ohio to earn a college degree. He was born on the plantation in South Carolina owned by Colonel John Means. Means freed Templeton's family in 1813, and they moved to Adams County, Ohio with Colonel Means. With the aid and encouragement of Rev. Robert G. Wilson, president of Ohio University (1824-1839), Templeton enrolled at the University in 1824. It is noteworthy that Ohio University, unlike many institutions of higher education at this time, had no restrictive clauses pertaining to race; any male youth who qualified for acceptance was admitted. While working his way trough college, Templeton maintained a superior academic record and was an especially active member of the Athenian Literary Society.

Ohio University can indeed be proud of John Newton Templeton, the first Black American to receive a college degree in the State of Ohio and in the entire area encompassing the old Northwest Territory. On a national scale, Templeton is the fourth Black college graduate, preceded by Edward A. Jones (Amherst College, 1826), John B. Russwurm (Bowdoin College, 1826), and Edward A. Mitchell (Dartmouth College, 1828). In Ohio, Oberlin College began to admit Afro-Americans in 1835."

The main auditorium on the campus is now named after he, and the first black woman, Martha Jane Hunley Blackburn, to graduate from O.U. -- The Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium.

When I was in school, it was just Memorial Auditorium -- or Mem Aud.

Athens, home of Ohio University, was a main "stop" on the Underground Railroad. It is campus legend that a sorority house (ZTA, when I was there, I think) is haunted by the ghost of a runaway slave who died there.