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12 unusual facts about Historically Black colleges and universities


Abbott Memorial Alumni Stadium

When it opened, it was the first stadium opened on a historically black school's campus.

Ernie Pough

Pough grew up in Jacksonville, Florida and attended college at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, a historically black college which at the time competed in Division II.

Ernst Borinski

In 1947, he accepted a teaching position at Tougaloo College, a historically black college located in Tougaloo, Mississippi.

Borinski is one of the subjects profiled in the documentary, From Swastika to Jim Crow, which looks at Jewish refugee scholars who taught at historically black colleges in the mid-20th Century.

Hip-hop based education

HBCU, Howard University hosted a panel in 2006 to discuss the option of creating a hip-hop studies minor within the upcoming years.

Historically black colleges and universities

The following list illustrates the percentage of white student populations currently attending historically black colleges and universities according to statistical profiles compiled by the U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges 2011 edition: Langston University 12%; Shaw University 12%; Tennessee State University 12%; University of Maryland Eastern Shore 12%; North Carolina Central University 10%.

Some historically black colleges now have non-black majorities, notably West Virginia State University and Bluefield State College whose student body has been over 80% white since the mid-1960s.

Jeanne Hopkins Lucas

She was also a proud and contributing alum of the first publicly funded historically Black college in the nation, North Carolina Central University and was inducted into the university's Golden Eagle Society in 2003.

Johnson C. Smith

After he died in 1919, his wife, Jane Berry Smith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania gave funds to build a theological dormitory, a science hall, a teachers' cottage, and a memorial gate at the Biddle University, an historically black university in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Lauraville, Baltimore

In 1918, residents of Lauraville were incensed that the nearby Ivy Mill property, where Morgan State University would eventually be built, had been sold to a "negro college."

Mel Groomes

In 1955 Groomes was hired as an assistant football coach at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a historically black college in Greensboro, North Carolina.

WHCJ

As a public radio station located on the campus of an historically Black university, WHCJ has become the principal source of cultural programming for Savannah’s African-American community, but the station's audience is considerable and diverse; not limited to any one ethnic group.


Avon Williams

He was a 1940 graduate of Johnson C. Smith University, an historically black university located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sarah Ann Dickey

Sarah Ann Dickey (April 25, 1838 – January 23, 1904) was an ordained minister who founded the historically black institution of higher education for women in Clinton, Mississippi, Mount Hermon Female Seminary in 1875.

Tirrel Burton

Burton began a long career as a college football coach in 1968, accepting a position as an assistant football coach at the historically black Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.