6 HBCU Micah's Black History #15

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  1. 2. The University is 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.
  2. 5. This College is a private, four-year coeducational historically black liberal arts university located in Denmark, South Carolina
  3. 6. It was established in 1962 In 1986 it officially became one of the 117 U.S. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). It remains the only HCBU not on the mainland of the United States.
  4. 8. Located in Marshall, Texas, is the first African-American college established in the Lone Star State.
  5. 9. This University is a historically black public land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. Founded on March 6, 1882.
  6. 10. The University was founded under the provisions of the Second Morrill Act of 1890 as the West Virginia Colored Institute, one of 19 land-grant institutions authorized by Congress and designated by the states to provide for the education of black citizens in agriculture and the mechanical arts.
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  1. 1. The University was the first state-supported college in Texas for African Americans, was founded as part of the post-Civil War effort to restructure education in the state of Texas. It is the second oldest state-funded institution of higher education in Texas.
  2. 3. Founded on this date in 1881. The school was founded as a school for Black students by American educator Booker T. Washington.
  3. 4. The University was Founded in 1896, as the state's sole public college for black youth. It 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.
  4. 7. The University was established on February 25, 1837, making it the first institution of higher learning for African Americans.