3 HBCU Micah's Black History #12

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  1. 5. This University was founded in 1866 by missionaries as a training facility for black preachers. It was decided that the school would be named after Civil war hero General Oliver O. Howard, a white man, who was serving as the Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau.
  2. 6. This University, located on the shore of Chesapeake Bay in Hampton, Virginia, was founded in 1868 by Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the son of a prominent missionary family that settled in Hawaii in the early 1800s. Armstrong was enrolled at Williams College in Massachusetts when the Civil War began.
  3. 8. In 1902, William Merida Hubbard founded the State Teachers and Agricultural College in Forsyth that, in 1939, merged with the Fort Valley School to become Fort Valley State College. It became _______ ______ ______ _____ in June 1996.
  4. 9. This State University (KSU and KYSU) is a public historically black university in Frankfort, Kentucky. Founded in 1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons, and becoming a land grant college in 1890, It was the second state-supported institution of higher learning in Kentucky.
  5. 10. A&M University was founded in 1887 as the State Normal (teacher-training) College for Colored Students. In 1891 it was designated Florida's land-grant institution for African Americans, and its name was changed to the State Normal and Industrial College for Colored Students.
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  1. 1. This State University was founded in 1901 and emerged from the desire of African American farmers in rural North Louisiana to educate their black children in the northern and western parts of the state.
  2. 2. This University was founded on April 7, 1867, is one of the oldest predominantly African American universities in North Carolina. The university was founded by three Presbyterian ministers, Rev. Samuel C. The University offered its first Bachelor of Arts degree in 1876.
  3. 3. This Community College began in September of 1917 when this County's Agricultural High School opened in the small town of Raymond. These humble beginnings included an Administration Building, two dormitories, a dairy barn, 8 faculty and 117 students.
  4. 4. This College is a historically black liberal arts college in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, which was founded in 1875 by the United Presbyterian Church of North America.
  5. 7. This State University was founded on October 23, 1877 as Natchez Seminary, operating under the auspices of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, "for the moral, religious, and intellectual improvement of Christian leaders of the colored people of Mississippi and the neighboring states".