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Philander Smith University, then Walden Seminary, was founded in 1877 as the result of the first attempt to establish an institution of higher learning for formerly enslaved Black Americans west of the Mississippi River. Philander Smith, the man whom the school is named after passed away in 1882, leaving his wife a $125,000 fortune. Mrs. […]
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Simmons College of Kentucky was founded in 1879 by members of the Kentuck State Convention of Colored Baptist Churches. The college speaks of its founding, stating, In 1865, members of the Kentucky State Convention of Colored Baptist Churches proposed the creation of Kentucky’s first post-secondary educational institution dedicated to the education of Black citizens. This
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Special Note: Black Oakwood University students and faculty have a rich history of protest and fighting tirelessly for their civil rights. There is much to omit for timeliness and length of the following story of the University’s founding. Oakwood University has a rich history of being a civil rights battleground. The students showed great bravery
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PQC was founded in Austin, Texas in 1872 by a group of AME church members as the Connection School for the Education of Negro Youth. The school moved to Waco, Texas in 1877 and renamed itself “Waco College”. In 1880 while still located in Waco, TX, the school was officially chartered by the state of
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Coahoma Community College is one of thirteen 2-year HBCUs! Originally it was founded as Coahoma Country Agricultural High School in 1924 for Black people under the “separate but equal” doctrine. In 1949, the Junior College curriculum was added, and it was renamed Coahoma Junior College and Agricultural High School. The school says of that time
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Florida Memorial University (FMU) was founded in 1879 and is presently located in beautiful Miami Gardens, Florida. It was originally founded in Live Oak, Florida as the Florida Baptist Institute. However, white supremacists did not like the idea of this institution’s existence and unknown suspects shot into one of the school’s buildings. This prompted then
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Harris-Stowe State University is fairly new in name, having gained University status on August 25, 2005. However, the institution has a rich history as a combination of several colleges. The St. Louis Normal School (Harris Teachers College,1857, White Women only) and Sumner Normal School (Stowe Teachers College, 1890, Black Women only) merged to become known
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Tougaloo College is located in Jackson, Mississippi and sits on 500 acres of a former plantation along West County Line Road. It was founded in 1869 by The American Missionary Association of New York with the purpose to educate newly freed African Americans. Like many HBCUs founded during this time period, it started out as
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Morris College is located in Sumter, South Carolina and was founded in 1908 by Jacob J. Durham. Doctor Durham received an A.B. from Fisk in 1880, graduated valedictorian of Meharry Medical College with an M.D. in 1882 and received an A.M. from Fisk in 1885. He was an educator, an orator that spoke strongly against
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BATON ROUGE — LSU School of Medicine first opened its doors in New Orleans in 1931, but didn’t see its first Black graduate until 1970. Dr. Claude Jenkins Tellis went on to spend decades working as a pulmonologist in the Baton Rouge area. When Dr. Tellis graduated from medical school, only 2.2 percent of doctors
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