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Alabama & Georgia HBCUs

Alabama & Georgia HBCUs. By: CeCe Heard. Alabama State University. Montgomery, Alabama Public Christian and Baptist 1867, in Marion, Alabama

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Alabama & Georgia HBCUs

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  1. Alabama & Georgia HBCUs By: CeCe Heard

  2. Alabama State University • Montgomery, Alabama • Public • Christian and Baptist • 1867, in Marion, Alabama • The school started as the Lincoln Normal School with $500 raised by nine freed slaves now known as the Marion Nine, making ASU one of the nation’s oldest institutions of higher education founded for black Americans.

  3. Alabama A&M • Huntsville, Alabama • Public • Christian • 1875 • Taught industrial education and became the “State Normal and Industrial School at Huntsville.”

  4. Concordia College • Selma, Alabama • Public • Christian • 1922 • Boasts a student body representing a diversity of geographic, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as the distinctive status as the nation’s only Historically Black Lutheran College or University (HBCU).

  5. Miles College • Fairfield, Alabama • Public • Christian • 1898 • Saw educated leadership as the paramount need in the black community.

  6. Stillman College • Tuscaloosa, Alabama • Public • Christian • 1875

  7. Tuskegee University • Tuskegee, Alabama • Public • Christian • 1881 • “The Pride of the swift, growing South.”

  8. Talladega College • Talladega, Alabama • Public • Christian • 1865 • "...We regard the education of our children and youths as vital to the preservation of our liberties, and true religion as the foundation of all real virtue, and shall use our utmost endeavors to promote these blessings in our common country."

  9. Bishop State Community College • Mobile, Alabama • Public • Christian • 1927 • Established as an in-service arm of Alabama State College that offered extension courses to African-American elementary and secondary teachers in Mobile.

  10. Oakwood College • Huntsville, Alabama • Private • Christian • 1896 • To educate the recently-freed African-Americans of the South. Drawing upon its Christian faith and the emancipation of slaves by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, it believed that “all people are created equal” and deserved the opportunity to learn a trade.

  11. Clark Atlanta University • Decatur, Georgia • Private • Christian • 1865 • Offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees as well as certificate programs to students of diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

  12. Fort Valley State University • Fort Valley, Georgia • Public • Christian • 1895 • To advance the cause of education with an emphasis on a commitment to the community through a concept known as communiversity.

  13. Morehouse College • Atlanta, Georgia • Private • Christian • 1867 • Morehouse is an academic community dedicated to teaching, scholarship, and service, and the continuing search for truth as a liberating force.

  14. Morris Brown College • Atlanta, Georgia • Private • Methodist Episcopal • 1881 • The College is proud of its tradition of serving the educational needs of the best and brightest young minds, while simultaneously providing educational support to students who might not otherwise receive the opportunity to compete on the college level.

  15. Paine College • Augusta, Georgia • Public • Christian Methodist Episcopal • 1869 • A school to train Negro teachers and preachers so that they might in turn appropriately address the educational and spiritual needs of the people newly freed from the evils of slavery.

  16. Spelman College • Atlanta, Georgia • Private • Christian • 1881 • America's oldest historically Black college for women

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