Black and Education

September 14, 1924, the American Baptist College opened its doors. Like some other historically Black colleges, the American Baptist College got its start from a religious organization.

Allen University was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1870.  It’s hard for me to think of another institution (outside of the Federal Government) that has supported and established more institutions of higher learning than the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

It cannot be overstated that the AME Church had a lasting and phenomenal impact on the lives of many Black Americans.  It was the first independent African-American religious denomination.

Alcorn State University was founded in 1871. It offered higher education to areas where none might not have been available to many people in rural Mississippi, but its greatest testament is shared by those who graced its halls, namely Hiram Revels and Medgar Evers.

Albany State University was founded in 1903 with rich traditions and a long history, its stories are best told through the experiences of the people who lived them.

Alabama State University was active in several ways at the end of the Civil War, when it was founded, and at the dawn of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Alabama A&M University offers educational opportunities to students seeking to kickoff their careers.

Sir if this is founded in truth, I apprehend you will readily embrace every

opportunity to eradicate that train of absurd and false ideas and opinions

which so generally prevails with respect to us, and that your Sentiments

are concurrent with mine, which are that one universal Father hath given

being to us all, and that he hath not only made us all of one flesh, but

that he hath also without partiality afforded us all the Same Sensations,

and endued us all with the same…

When I think about Sally Hemings and her mother, Elizabeth Hemings, I think about the words “Me too!”

Dr. Olivia J. Hooker was a clinical psychologist, a professor of

psychology, one of the first African-American women to serve in the U.S.

Coast Guard and a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre in 1921.

For the few Blacks who were able to get homes, their homes “may have” risen

in value, but so much of the money surrounding the housing industry was

going to white people who were profiting off of a segregated area.