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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

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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
Take 6

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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

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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.

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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.



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

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Thanks for giving SC State and Clalfin their props.

Also, they are right next door to each other.

Rep. Clyburn is also an Omega.

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Originally posted by daffodils
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!

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

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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

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
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.

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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!!!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
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!!!

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

[CrimsonTide4]

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.

[IOTA-4A'88F]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4

Notable Alumni

The founders of Iota Phi Theta

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

[StarFish106]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4


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

Fair Morgan......

[CrimsonTide4]

Tennessee State University


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."




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

[CrimsonTide4]

Savannah State University

http://www.savstate.edu/

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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