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unusual facts about historically black college



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.

Harriet Elizabeth Byrd

Byrd graduated with a bachelor's degree in education from West Virginia State College, a historically black college in Institute, West Virginia in 1949, and returned to Wyoming in order to apply for a teaching job with the Laramie County School District, but was denied employment because of her race.

Jasper, Florida

Shortly after "Killers of the Dream" was published she received an honorary degree from Howard University, a historically black college, with the declaration, "You are a dangerous revolutionist. There is enough dynamite in what you say to blow up the very foundation of segregated civilization."

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.

Lawrence A. Oxley

During this period, Oxley also taught for a few years as an instructor at St. Augustine's College, a historically black college (HBCU) in the capital of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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.


see also

Black psychology

The years following saw the founding of Black colleges across the country including notable institutions such as the first historically black college Lincoln University (1854),

Education in Dallas

Originally located in Waco, Texas, it moved to Dallas in 1993 and is housed on the campus of the former Bishop College, another private, historically Black college.

Ezell Brown

Brown later earned a Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Leadership and Management from Morris Brown College an online historically black college and university.

Paul Quinn

Paul Quinn College, private, historically black college (HBCU) located in Dallas, Texas