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1837:
The institute of colored youth is established in Cheyney, Penn. as a
school teaching elementary and high school education. Later renamed as
Cheyney University.
Established in 1837 through a bequest from a Philadelphia Quaker who
wished to see that young people of African descent had access to
education, Cheyney is the oldest HBCU. One of 14 state universities
under
the State System of Higher Education in Pennsylvania, Cheyney University
of Pennsylvania was originally located in Philadelphia, the university was
moved to its present location in Cheyney in 1903.
A few years later after many years under the direction of a Quaker Board
of Managers, it was purchased by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
later became Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.
Cheyney University went on to graduate some great alumni, including
Ed Bradley (TV Host, 60 Minutes).
Cheyney University
1854:
Founded in 1854 as Ashmun Institute, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
was originally intended to provide a higher education in the arts and
sciences for male youth of African descent. In 1866, the institute
was
renamed Lincoln University after President Abraham Lincoln and opened its
doors to admit women students in 1952.
A prominent university since its inception, Lincoln graduated
approximately 20 percent of the Black physicians and more than 10 percent
of the Black attorneys in the United States during the first one hundred
years of its existence.
Lincoln University went on to graduate some great alumni, including
Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall.
1856:
Wilberforce University is founded in Wilberforce, Ohio and becomes
the
first Black College for WOMEN, and
oldest private black liberal
arts college in the nation.
Wilberforce University is named after the 18th century English statesman
and abolitionist William Wilberforce. The University is religiously
affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a participant
in the United Negro College Fund. Opened in 1856 during one of the most
tumultuous times in American history, it is reportedly the first
institution of higher education owned and operated by African Americans
(note that Cheyney University predates it, but was not owned and operated
by African Americans).
1865:
End of the Civil War.
The 13th amendment abolishes slavery in the U.S.
Historians have richly documented the zeal with which the freed slaves of
those days took to the books which had been forbidden them in their time
of bondage. Learning was to be the bridge that would carry them from
emancipation onward to real freedom and dignity.
Shaw University, the oldest HBCU in the South, is founded in
Raleigh, N.C.
On December 1, 1865, when Henry Martin Tupper undertook the organization
of a theology class as a means of teaching Freedmen to read and interpret
the Bible, no one envisioned the end result of this being the
establishment of a university. Rapid growth in the size of this class led
to the purchase of land in 1866 for the purpose of erecting a building to
serve as both church and school. The school was named the "Raleigh
Institute," and it functioned as such until 1870, when it was supplanted
by the "Shaw Collegiate Institute." In 1875, it was incorporated as the
"Shaw University," which name it still bears, with the charter specifying
that students were to be admitted without regard to race, creed, or sex.
The school does not bear the name of its founder but of Elijah Shaw, the
benefactor who provided funds for the first building, Shaw Hall, erected
in 1871.
1866:
Edward Waters College was founded in 1866 by the AME Church.
Edward Waters is the oldest Historically African-American College in the
state of Florida.
Although chartered as "Brown Theological Institute" in 1872, the name was
changed in two years to "Brown University". Due to financial
difficulties, the school ceased to function for a decade. After several
location and name changes, the educational programs were extended and the
school's name was changed to Edward Waters College in 1892, in honor of
the third bishop of the AME Church.
Rust College was established in 1866 by the Freedman's Aid Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The school accepted adults of all ages,
as well as children, for instruction in elementary subjects. In 1870, the
school was charted as Shaw University, honoring the Rev. S.O. Shaw, who
made a gift of $10,000 to the institution.
In 1882, the name was changed to Rust University. THe name is a tribute
to Richard S. Rust of Cincinnati, OH, Secretary of the Freedman's Aid
Society. In 1915, the name was changed to Rust College. Rust College is
the oldest HBCU in the state of Mississippi.
1867:
Talladega College was established in 1867:
The history of Talladega College began on November 20, 1865, when two
former slaves William Savery and Thomas Tarrant, both of Talladega, met in
convention with a group of new freedmen in Mobile, Alabama. From this
meeting came the commitment, '...We regard the education of our children
and youth as vital to the preservation of our liberties, and true religion
as the foundation of all real virtue, and shall use our utmost endeavors
to promote these blessings in our common country.'
With this as their pledge, Savery and Tarrant, aided by General Wager
Swayne of the Freedmens Bureau, began in earnest to provide a school for
the children of former slaves of the community. Their leadership resulted
in the construction of a one-room school house using lumber salvaged from
an abandoned carpenters shop. The school overflowed with pupils from its
opening and soon it was necessary to move into larger quarters. Meanwhile,
the nearby Baptist Academy was about to be sold under mortgage default.
This building had been built in 1852-53 with the help of slaves -
including Savery and Tarrant. A speedy plea was sent to General Swayne for
its purchase. General Swayne in turn persuaded the American Missionary
Association to buy the building and some 20 acres of land for $23,000. The
grateful parents renamed the building Swayne School and it opened in
November of 1867 with about 140 pupils. Thus a building constructed with
slave labor for white students became the home of the states first college
dedicated to servicing the educaitonal needs of blacks.
In 1869, Swayne School was issued a charter as Talladega College by the
Judge of Probate of Talladega County.
Howard
University was established in 1867:
In November 1866, shortly after the end of the Civil War, members of The
First Congregational Society of Washington considered establishing a
theological seminary for the education of African-American clergymen.
Within a few weeks, the concept had
expanded to include a provision for
establishing a university. Within two years, the University consisted of
the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Medicine. The new institution was named
for General Oliver O. Howard, Civil War hero, who was both a founder of
the University and, at the time, Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau.
Famous graduates include
Andrew Young (Mayor of Atlanta), Toni Morrison
(Author), Shirley Franklin
(current Major of Atlanta), Sean "P Diddy Combs" (Entrepreneur/Producer),
and Ananda
Lewis (TV Host).
Morehouse College was founded in 1867 as "Augusta
Institute" in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta, GA.
Augusta Institute was founded by the Rev. William Jefferson White, an
Augusta Baptist minister and cabinetmaker, with the support of 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.
In 1855, the institution relocated to the West End of Atlanta, on a Civil
War historic site at which confererate soldiers staged a determined
resistance to Union forces during the famous siege of Atlanta.
During his era, Atlanta Baptist College was named Morehouse College in
honor of Henry L. Morehouse, the corresponding secretary of the Atlanta
Baptist Home Mission Society.
Famous graduates include Howard Thurman (Politician,
Preacher), Martin
Luther King, Jr. (Political Activist), Spike Lee (Film Producer), and
Samuel L. Jackson (Actor).
Fayetteville State University:
Seven visionary Black citizens of
Fayetteville, North
Carolina pay $140.00 for two lots on Gillespie Street and
form among themselves a self-perpetuating Board of
Trustees to maintain the property for the education of
Black youth.
Fayetteville State University was
founded as the Howard School by
seven African-American men. It is one of the oldest teacher education
institutions in the south.
Fayetteville State University has several prominent graduates, including
Darrell Armstrong (NBA player).
Fisk University is
established in Nashville, TN.
Barely six months after the end of the Civil War, and just two years after
the Emancipation Proclamation, three men
established the Fisk School in Nashville, named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the
Tennessee Freedmen's Bureau, who provided the new institution with
facilities in former Union army barracks near the present site of
Nashville's Union Station. In these facilities Fisk convened its first
classes on January 9, 1866. The first students ranged in age from seven to
seventy, but shared common experiences of slavery and poverty--and an
extraordinary thirst for learning.
Fisk has numerous prominent graduates, including John Hope Franklin
(Historian, Author), Kym Whitley (Actress), W.E.B. DuBois (Political
Activist), and Nikki Giovanni (Poetess).
Johnson C. Smith University is established.
In 1867, the Rev. S.C. Alexander and the Rev. W. L. Miller saw the need to
establish an institution in this section of the South. On April 7, 1867,
at Catawba Presbytery in the old Charlotte Presbyterian Church, formerly
located at the corner of D and Fourth streets in Charlotte, the school was
formally inaugurated, and the two ministers were elected as teachers.
Information concerning the establishing of the school was brought to the
attention of Mrs. Mary D. Biddle, an excellent churchwoman of
Philadelphia, Pa., who through appeals on behalf of the work in one of the
church papers, pledged $1,400. In appreciation of this first and generous
contribution, friends of the project requested Mrs. Biddle to name the
newly established school after he late husband, Major Henry Biddle. After
the request was granted, the school was named Biddle Memorial Institute
and later was chartered by the state legislature under that name. The
school later became Biddle University, then Johnson C. Smith
University in 1923.
1868:
Hampton University was originally founded as the Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute in 1868 as a place to train newly freed African
Americans. A private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher
learning, it was the first US college to admit
Native Americans. In 1878
it was renamed Hampton Institute and became Hampton University in 1984.
Hampton University has graduated several famous alumni, including
Booker
T. Washington and Wanda Sykes.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church founds Allen University in Columbia, S.C.
1869:
Claflin University is established in Orangeburg, S.C.
The origin of Claflin College may be traced to the founding of the Baker
Biblical Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1866. It was within
the confines of a building belonging to this institution that the South
Carolina Mission Conference was organized on April 2, 1866. Leaders of the
Mission Conference played crucial roles in the organization of Claflin
University on December 18, 1869. Members of this group included Samuel
Weston and Joseph Sasportas, along with a number of other prominent
churchmen.
Boston philanthropist Lee Claflin and his son, Massachusetts Governor
William Claflin, provided the initial financing for the purchase of the
property of the Orangeburg Female Academy upon which the new college was
located. Dr. Alonzo Webster and the Reverend T. Willard Lewis played
prominent parts in securing this site.
Straight University is founded and later merges with New Orleans
University to form Dillard University.
The university was named in honor of James Hardy Dillard, whose
distinguished service in the education of African Americans in the South
forms an important chapter in the history of American education.
Famous graduates include Ruth Simmons, the first African-American
president of an Ivy League University (President of Brown College).
1870:
Alcorn State University is founded in Lorman, Mississippi.
A land-grant, residential university, it is affectionately known as the
'Academic Resort.'
Originally occupying the site of a school for Whites, which closed its
doors at the beginning of the Civil War and failed to reopen, the property
was sold to the state of Mississippi in 1871 and renamed Alcorn University
(an all-male university) in honor of James L. Alcorn, then governor of the
state of Mississippi. The name was later changed to Alcorn Agricultural
and Mechanical College. Women were later admitted, and in 1974 it became
Alcorn State University. Alcorn was the nation's first state-supported
institution for the higher education of African Americans.
Famous graduates include Alex Haley (Author of ROOTS),
Medgar Evers (Civil rights, Michael Clarke Duncan (Actor) and Steve McNair
(NFL Quarterback).
1871:
Alabama A&M University is founded in Huntsville, AL.
Alabama A&M maintains the unique tradition of land grant institutions by
combining professional, vocational and liberal arts education.
Famous graduates include Ruben Studdard (American Idol
winner).
1873:
Lincoln University admits 10 students from Liberia, making it the
first U.S. institution of higher learning to
accept African students.
Bennett College is founded.
Founded in 1873 as a coeducational institution with the first sessions
held in the basement of St. Matthews United Methodist Church, the school was founded
through the inspiration of newly emancipated slaves.
During then next few years,
African-American members of the Methodist
Church attempted to raise funds for land and a school building. However,
when contributions fell short of the goal, a businessman from New York
named Lyman Bennett donated $10,000. Shortly thereafter Bennett died of
pneumonia, but in memoriam the institution was renamed Bennett Seminary
and it's first building named Bennett Hall. Bennett was reorganized
in
1926 to become a College for Women.
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is founded by an act of the
Legislature as a branch of the Arkansas Industrial University (now the
University of Arkansas).
Originally known as Branch Normal College, the school opened in a rented
frame building on the corner of Sevier and Lindsey Streets in the city of
Pine Bluff.
1876:
The year was 1876. Reconstruction was in full swing and the health of
America's poor was receiving little attention. In Nashville, post-Civil
War conditions contributed significantly to the city's unenviable
distinction of having the worst mortality rate in the country. Conditions
among freed slaves were particularly dismal, accounting for
disproportionate rates of death and disease in the black population.
In October of that
year, Meharry Medical College was founded. Established
as the Meharry Medical Department of Central Tennessee College by the
Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Meharry's
inception was part of the Society's continuing effort to educate freed
slaves and to provide health care services for the poor and under-served.
The first individual contributors to the school were the five Meharry
brothers, led by Samuel Meharry. Their initial gift was matched by the
Methodist Church and the department was formally opened on October 13,
1876.
Prairie View A&M University is founded in PrairieView, TX as part
of the Texas A&M University system.
On March 11, 1878, eight young Negro men became the first of their race to
enroll in a state-supported college in Texas. Among the instructors were
two brothers, E.H. and L.C. Anderson, who became the second and third
principals of the young and struggling college.
Prairie View has produced
more African-American three-star
generals than any other historically Black university in the country.
Prairie View's notable alumni include Terry Ellis
(singer, En Vogue).
1877:
Jackson State University in Jackson, MS. is established:
Notable alumni include Rod Paige, former U.S.
Secretary of Education;
Cassandra Wilson, Jazz Vocalist; and
Lindsey Hunter, NBA player.
Lane College in Jackson, TN. is established:
In 1878, which the Reverend J. K. Daniels presented a resolution to
establish a school to the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of
America.
Due to the great yellow fever epidemic of 1878, the idea did not make
substantial headway until Bishop Isaac Lane came to take charge of the
Tennessee Conference as presiding Bishop. This former slave, a son of his
former owner, formulated workable plans for the founding of the school. On
January 1, 1880, largely due to his effort, four acres were purchased for
$240.
The institution began its first
session in 1882, as the "C.M.E. High
School," with Miss Jennie E. Lane, daughter of the Founder, as its first
teacher.
Virginia State University is founded in a suburb of Petersburg, VA.
and becomes America's first fully state-supported,
four-year institution of
higher learning for Blacks.
Virginia State University has a long history of outstanding faculty and
administration. The first person to bear the title of President, John
Mercer Langston, was one of the best-known blacks of his day. Until 1992,
he was the only black ever elected to the United States Congress from
Virginia (elected in 1888), and he was the great-uncle of the famed writer
Langston Hughes.
Famous graduates include James Brown (former NFL player).
1879:
Southern University is established.
Southern University and A&M
College began in 1880 as the result of a
movement in Louisiana for an equal opportunity institution of higher
learning sponsored in the 1879 Louisiana State Constitutional Convention
by four African American delegates. Originally located in New Orleans, it
was later reorganized to receive national land-grant funds and moved north
of Baton Rouge in what was then Scotlandville, Louisiana, in 1914. Today,
Southern University is part of the nation's only historically Black Land
Grant university system in the U.S.
1881:
Spelman College is established.
Spelman was founded as Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary by Sophia B. Packard and
Harriet E. Giles, in the basement of Friendship
Baptist Church. The school was moved to its current location in 1883. In
1884, the name was changed to Spelman Seminary in honor of Mrs. Laura
Spelman Rockefeller and her parents (Harvey Buel and Lucy Henry Spelman),
longtime activists in the antislavery movement.
Famous graduates include Esther Rolle (actress, "Good Times"), Alice Walker
(author of "The Color Purple"), and Keisha Knight Pulliam (actress, "The Cosby Show").
Tuskegee University is founded.
Bookter T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute, later renamed Tuskegee University.
Famous graduates include Betty Shabazz
(activist,
wife of Malcolm X), Ralph Ellison (author of "Invisble Man", and Tom
Joyner (Syndicated Disc Jockey, HBCU Supporter).
1882:
Arkansas Baptist College is established in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1884:
The passing of the second Morrill Act requires States with dual systems
of higher education to provide land-grand institutions for both systems.
This act eventually establishes 19 colleges of Agricultural research,
home economics, and mechanical arts for people of color.
1887:
Florida A&M University (FAMU)
was founded in 1867 as the State Normal College for Colored Students,
with fifteen students and two instructors.
In 1891, the college received $7,500 under the Second Morrill Act for
agricultural and mechanical arts education; thus, it became Florida's land
grant institution for African-Americans. The college was moved to its
present location at that time.
Famous graduates include Althea Gibson (Tennis), COMMON
(Hip-Hop Artist), Frederick Humphries (president of UNCF< former president
of FAMU), Kwame Kilpatrick (Youngest mayor of Detroit), and Keith
Clinkscales
(Former editor of Vibe, CEO
of Vanguarde Media).
Langston University is established in Oklahoma.
1890:
The State College for Colored Students, now known as Delaware State
University, was established May 15, 1891 by the Delaware General
Assembly under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1890 by which
land-grant colleges for Blacks came into existence in states
maintaining separate educational facilities.
1891:
North Carolina A&T State University is founded.
North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NCA&T) is
beginning its second century. It was established by an act of the General
Assembly of North Carolina as ratified on March 9, 1891.
North Carolina A&T State University is a four-year, state-supported, coed
liberal arts institution founded in 1891 as one of two land-grant
institutions in the state and an annex of Shaw University. NCA&T was
originally named A&M College for the Colored Race. The first baccalaureate
degrees were awarded in 1896 after the school relocated in Greensboro. It
was renamed Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina in 1915.
The present name was adopted in 1967 and NCA&T was designated a
constituent institution of the North Carolina University System in 1972.
Notable alumni include Rev. Jesse Jackson (Civil
Rights Activist), Ronald
McNair (Astronaut), and Henry Frye (Former Chief Justice, NC Supreme
Court) .
1892:
Founded in 1892 as the Slater Industrial Academy, Winston-Salem State
University from the
beginning has always insisted upon the vital importance of elementary
school teachers in any program of building an improved citizenship. It's
emphasis continued in this area, and in 1925 the school was granted a new
charter and its name changed to the Winston-Salem Teachers College: the
first Negro institution in the nation to grant degrees for teaching in the
elementary grades.
Legislative approval was received in 1969 to change the name to
Winston-Salem State University
First Football game played between 2 HBCUs:
Biddle University (later renamed Johnson C. Smith University) and
Livingston College is play in NC
1895:
Fort Valley State University was founded as the Fort Valley
High and Industrial School. The institution was founded upon the
principle of serving the educational needs of African American students.
1896:
South Carolina State University was founded 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
the nation.
1900:
James Weldon Johnson writes "Life Every Voice and Sing" for Lincoln's
Birthday celebration. It is now known as the Black National Anthem.
1901:
Grambling State University is founded in Grambling, LA.
Founded in 1901 as a private industrial school to educate the African
American citizens of north central Louisiana, Grambling State University
-- originally a two-story building on 23-acres of land that was purchased
from a Black man -- was first known as The Colored Industrial and Agricultural
School.
In 1905 the School moved to its present location on a 200-acre plot, was
reorganized using Tuskegee as a model, and renamed the North Louisiana
Agricultural and Industrial School. As the school continued to grow it
also experienced several more name changes, becoming Grambling State
University in 1974.
Famous graduates include Eddie Robinson
(Winningest Coach in College Football History, led Grambling Tigers to 8
national titles), and Erykah Badu
(singer).
1904:
Bethune-Cookman College was established in Daytona, FL.
The year was 1904 when a very determined young black woman, Mary McLeod
Bethune, opened the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for
Negro Girls. It underwent several stages of growth and development through
the years. In 1923, it became a co-ed high school as a result of merger
with Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida. A year later, the school
became affiliated with United Methodist Church, evolved into a junior
college by 1931 and became known as Bethune-Cookman College.
1906:
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first
intercollegiate Black Greek-letter
fraternity is founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
The second chapter (beta) is established at Howard University in 1907.
1908:
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority is founded at Howard University, thus becoming
the first
AA-oriented greek leter organization established at an HBCU
1910:
North Carolina College for Negroes (later renames NCCU) is
established
as the national religious training school for the colored race.
1911:
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is established on the campus of Howard
University.
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity is founded on the campus of Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana.
1912:
Tennessee State University is founded in Nashville, TN.
Famous graduates include Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Oprah
Winfrey, Dr. Bobby Jones, Wilma Rudolph, Richard Dent, Ron Brown, and Dr.
Levi Watkins, Jr.
Xavier University is founded in New Orleans, LA, the only catholic HBCU.
1913:
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. is founded at Howard University
1914:
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. is established at Howard University.
1920:
Zeta Phi Beta sorority is founded at Howard University
1922:
Sigma Gamma Rho sorority is founded at Butler University in Indianapolis,
IN.
1925:
NCCU becomes the first state-supported liberal
arts college for black people.
1926:
Mordecai W. Johnson becomes the first black
president of Howard
University
1929:
Atlanta University System is formed, which unites Atlanta University,
Morehouse College and Spelman College.
Lewis College of Business is founded. The private Junior College
originated as a storefront in Indianapolis, IN.
1930:
Fisk University becomes the first HBCU to be
fully accredited by the
Southern Association of Colleges and schools
1932:
Among the 117 African-American institutions of Higher Education,
36 are public, 81 are private (74 of which are church-affiliated) and 5
offer graduate-level instruction.
1938:
U.S. Supreme Court rules that Missouri cannot compel Lloyd L. Gaines,
an AA student, to attend an out-of-state school, but must supply equal
educational facilities for blacks and whites within state borders.
1939:
Formerly known as Morgan State Biblical College, Morgan State College is
founded in Baltimore, MD.
1940:
Benjamin Mays becomes president of Morehouse College. He retires from
this position in 1967.
1944:
UNCF is founded by Fredrick Douglass Patterson, President of Tuskegee
Institute (now Tuskegee University)
1946:
Legendary Band Director, William Foster begins his 52-year career as
FAMU's band director. He is the first to
redefine band pageantry with
the showy style rapid tempos, high-stepping and dancing that is popular
today.
1947:
Texas Southern University is established as a state university in
Houston, TX. The institution was initially known as Houston Colored
Junior college, which opened in 1927.
1954:
US Supreme court decides in the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of
Education of Topeka, rules that "separate but equal" educational
facilities are "inherently unequal" and therefore segregation in public
education is unconstitutional.
Thurgood Marshall, himself a product of two HBCUs: Lincoln University
and Howard University Law school), heads the NAACP's legal team.
1960:
Students from NCA&T stage a sit-in at an F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in
Greensboro, NC.
This action sparks a wave of similar acts of civil disobedience
throughout the south.
1963:
Iota Phi Theta fraternity is founded on the campus of Morgan State
University.
1968:
Students at Howard University take over the administration building to
demand a more black-oriented curriculum.
1969:
Medgar Evers College, named after the slain civil rights leader Medgar
Evers, was founded in Brooklyn, NY.
1975:
Morehouse College establishes the Morehouse School of Medicine.
1977:
In Holly Springs, Mississippi, students at Rust College demonstrate to protest
the "dictatorial" activities.
Black Colleges and Universities experience a major increase in
enrollment, producing the largest student body to date.
1984:
The United Negro College Fund raises $14.1 million to support 40 HBCUs.
1985:
Morehouse School of Medicine is granted full accreditation to award an
MD degree.
1987:
TMSF is established. 40 schools are members of the fund.
1988:
Entertainer Bill Cosby and his wife Camille donate $20MM to Spelman
College in Atlanta, the largest donation to any college or University
made by an African-American.
1989:
Atlanta University and Clark College merge to form CAU.
Student protestors stage a sit-in at Howard University, forcing Lee
Atwater, Chairperson of the Republican National Committee, to resign
from Howard's board of directors. Atwater was credited for helping to
create a racially targeted TV ad for George Bush's 1988 presidential
campaign.
1996:
Spelman College is ranked as the leading liberal arts college in the
south. This is the first time an HBCU places
first in a National survey
of U.S. colleges.
1997:
FAMU is selected by Time Magazine/The Princeton Review as their first
ever "College of the Year"
2000:
Hampton University (ranked number 72) becomes the first HBCU listed on Yahoo!
Internet Life's list of America's Most Wired Colleges.
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