HBCU

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Originally founded in 1877 in Natchez, Mississippi as Natchez Seminary by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York

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Jackson State University

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Research University under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education

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Jackson State University

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HCU in Jackson Mississippi

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Jackson State University

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The United States first degree granting historically black university

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Lincoln University

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HBC located near Oxford in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania

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Lincoln University

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Dr. Horace Mann Bond said this was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and science for youth of African descent.

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Lincoln University

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March 7, 1927 Houston ISD created junior colleges called Houston Jr. College and Houston Colored Junior College

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Texas Southern University

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This college first held classes at Jack Yates High School during evening classes

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Texas Southern University

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4 year HBC private college founded in 1873 in Marshall, TX

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Wiley College

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One of the oldest black colleges west of the mississippi river

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Wiley College

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HBCU instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement of Texas, organized the first sit-ins in Texas in Old Harrison County Courthouse

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Wiley and Bishop College

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Home and subject of the movie The Great Debaters

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Wiley College

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Washington DC Tier 1 national university and 2nd of HBCO

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HOward University

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The School of Business ranked 1st in opportunities for minority of students

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HOward Univeristy

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Produces the most black doctorates than any university

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Howard Univeristy

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founded in 1896 as the Oakwood Industrial School

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Oakwood University

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In 1917 it was named Oakwood Junior College. in 1958 it was accredited and able to hand out degrees

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Oakwood University

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University established by Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee, Alabama

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Tuskegee University

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This University was home to George Washington Carver and WWII Tuskegee Airmen

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Tuskegee University

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Only university designated as the Tuskegee Institute National HIstoric Site

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Tuskegee University

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Alumni founded smaller schools and colleges throughout the South concentrating on teacher training

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Tuskegee University

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Infamous experiment from 1932 t o1972 where the US government partnered with the Tuskegee Institute to monitor the effects of deliberately untreated Syphlis on African American Men by telling them were being treated.

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Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

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Founded in 1866 in Nashville Tennessee and 1st University accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)

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Fisk University

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The land where the school was built was owned by David McGavock, brother of Randal McGavock, of the Carlton plantation

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Fisk University

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Founded in Talladega, Alabama and is Alabama’s oldest private HBC

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Talladega College

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November 20, 1865 - 3 former slaves William Savery, Thomas Tarrant, and Ambrose Headen met with some freedmen to forge the commitment that “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 virturem and shall use our utmost endeavours to promote these blessings in our common country.”

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Talladega College

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HBCU in Scotlandville Area of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Southern University

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The largest HBCU in Louisiana and flagship institution of the Southern University System

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Southern University

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HBCU in Prairie View, Texas and part of the Texas A&M University System.

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Prairie View A&M University