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3 unusual facts about Alabama State University


Dud Bascomb

He played piano as a child but settled on trumpet, and first played with Hawkins at the Alabama State Teachers' School (now Alabama State University) in 1932, where Hawkins led the Bama State Collegians band.

One Montgomery

and citizens formed the Friendly Supper Club, which meets at the Alabama State University faculty dining room at 6:00pm on the first Monday of each month.

Tonea Stewart

Stewart is currently the dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Alabama State University.


Agyenim Boateng

He worked as an Assistant Professor in Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama and also at Daniel Payne College in Birmingham, Alabama where he served as Assistant Professor of Political and Social Science.

Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management University

The EIILM University has academic collaborations for admission into graduate programs, exchange of information and of faculty members, and joint research activities with the Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) of the Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, and The Sage Colleges and the Alabama State University, both in the United States.

L. C. Cole

After a successful, but controversial, stint as head coach at Alabama State University, Cole revived the storied football program at Montgomery, Alabama's Sidney Lanier High School; during Cole's two years at Lanier, the Poets won the City Championship each year, and they never lost to a city opponent.

William G. Anderson

After obtaining an undergraduate degree from Alabama State College for Negroes (now Alabama State University) in 1949, Anderson attended Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his certification in surgery.


see also

Joseph Freeman

Joseph S. Freedman (born 1946), professor of education at Alabama State University

Ralph Abernathy

Abernathy received many awards, including honorary degrees from Long Island University in New York, Morehouse College in Atlanta, Kalamazoo College in Michigan, and his Alma Mater, Alabama State University in Montgomery.