5 HBCU Micah's Black History #14

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  1. 3. It is the first degree-awarding school of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in the United States.
  2. 5. This College was founded in 1869 by the American Missionary Association to provide teacher education and industrial training for African Americans in Mississippi. From its start this College served all races; a white student was among its first graduating class.
  3. 8. The University in Durham was the first state-supported liberal arts college for African American students in North Carolina.
  4. 10. This College was founded in Concord in 1867 as Scotia Seminary, a Presbyterian preparatory school for young, newly freed African American women.
  5. 12. The University was Founded in 1865, is one of the oldest historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the country. It was originally founded as Raleigh Institute, a school designed to teach freedmen theology and biblical interpretation.
  6. 13. This State University is the oldest HBCU in Maryland It was founded in 1865 by the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of Colored People as a teaching school. The school first used space at the African Baptist Church at Calvert Street and Sarasota Street, in Baltimore, Maryland.
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  1. 1. This University was founded as Slater Industrial Academy on September 28, 1892. It began in a one-room frame structure with 25 pupils and one teacher.
  2. 2. Stretches back to 1856, when the tiny Maryland Agricultural College was carved from part of Charles Benedict Calvert's plantation along a dirt road now called U.S Route 1. ... It survived the Great Fire of 1912, re-emerged as a public college, and boomed following World War II.
  3. 4. This College in Salisbury was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1879.
  4. 6. College was founded in 1867, and is Alabama's oldest private historically black liberal arts college.
  5. 7. This University is a comprehensive urban coeducational land-grant university founded in 1912 in Nashville, Tenn. The present-day _______ _______ ______ exists as a result of the merger on July 1, 1979 of Tennessee State University and the former University of Tennessee at Nashville.
  6. 8. The "Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race" was established On March 9, 1891.
  7. 9. This University was established on March 3, 1947 by the fiftieth Texas Legislature. Although originally founded as the Texas State University for Negroes, it became the first state-supported institution in the City of Houston.
  8. 11. A historically black College (HBCU), located in Tyler, Texas. The college was originally proposed by several ministers within the Colored Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church. The Church founded the college, the third all-black institution in the state, on roughly 25 acres of land near Tyler in 1894.