Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) In the late 19th century, colleges for black students were started in box cars (Atlanta University) and church basements (Spelman College). Mary McLeod Bethune, one of the nation's foremost black educators, opened a college in 1904 with $1.50 and 5 students. Today, there are 106 historically black colleges and universities in the United States, who can count among their graduates such luminaries as W. E. B. Du Bois (Fisk University), Thurgood Marshall (Lincoln University and Howard University), Toni Morrison (Howard University), and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Morehouse College).
Alabama A&M University (Ala.), www.aamu.edu Alabama State University (Ala.), www.alasu.edu Albany State University (Ga.), www.asurams.edu Alcorn State University (Miss.), www.alcorn.edu Allen University (S.C.), www.allenuniversity.edu Arkansas Baptist College (Ark.), www.arbaptcol.edu Barber-Scotia College (N.C.), www.b-sc.edu/ Benedict College (S.C.), www.benedict.edu Bennett College (N.C.), www.bennett.edu Bethune-Cookman College (Fla.), www.bethune.cookman.edu Bishop State Community College (Ala.) www.bscc.cc.al.us Bluefield State College (W.Va.), www.bluefield.wvnet.edu Bowie State University (Md.), www.bowiestate.edu Central State University (Ohio), www.centralstate.edu Charles Drew University of Medicine (Calif.), www.cdrewu.edu Cheyney University (Pa.), www.cheyney.edu Chicago State University (Ill.) www.csu.edu Claflin College (S.C.), www.claflin.edu Clark Atlanta University (Ga.), www.cau.edu Clinton Junior College (S.C.) www.clintonjrcollege.org Coahoma Community College (Miss.) www.ccc.cc.ms.us Concordia College (Ala.) www.concordiaselma.edu Coppin State College (Md.), www.coppin.edu Delaware State University (Del.), www.desu.edu Denmark Technical College (S.C.) www.den.tec.sc.us Dillard University (La.), www.dillard.edu Edward Waters College (Fla.), www.ewc.edu Elizabeth City State University (N.C.), www.ecsu.edu Fayetteville State University (N.C.), www.uncfsu.edu Fisk University (Tenn.), www.fisk.edu Florida A&M University (Fla.), www.famu.edu Florida Memorial College (Fla.), www.fmc.edu Fort Valley State University (Ga.), www.fvsu.edu Grambling State University (La.), www.gram.edu Hampton University (Va.), www.hamptonu.edu Harris-Stowe State College (Mo.), www.hssc.edu Hinds Community College (Miss.) lrc.hindscc.edu Howard University (D.C.), www.howard.edu Huston-Tillotson College (Tex.), www.htc.edu Interdenominational Theological www.itc.edu J. F. Drake State Technical College (Ala.) www.dstc.cc.al.us Jackson State University (Miss.), www.jsums.edu Jarvis Christian College (Tex.), www.jarvis.edu Johnson C. Smith University (N.C.), www.jcsu.edu Kentucky State University (Ky.), www.kysu.edu Knoxville College (Tenn.), www.knoxvillecollege.edu Lane College (Tenn.), www.lanecollege.edu Langston University (Okla.) www.lunet.edu Lawson State Community College (Ala.) www.ls.cc.al.us LeMoyne-Owen College (Tenn.), http://www.loc.edu/index.htm Lewis College of Business (Mich.), www.lewiscollege.edu Lincoln University (Mo.), www.lincolnu.edu Lincoln University (Pa.), www.lincoln.edu Livingstone College (N.C.), www.livingstone.edu Mary Holmes College (Miss.) www.maryholmes.edu Meharry Medical College (Tenn.), www.mmc.edu Miles College (Ala.), www.miles.edu Mississippi Valley State University (Miss.), www.mvsu.edu Morehouse College (Ga.), www.morehouse.edu Morehouse School of Medicine (Ga.), www.msm.edu Morgan State University (Md.), www.morgan.edu Morris Brown College (Ga.) Morris College (S.C.), www.morris.edu Norfolk State University (Va.), www.nsu.edu North Carolina A&T State University (N.C.), www.ncat.edu North Carolina Central University (N.C.), www.nccu.edu Oakwood College (Ala.), www.oakwood.edu Paine College (Ga.), www.paine.edu Paul Quinn College (Tex.), www.pqc.edu Philander Smith College (Ark.), www.philander.edu Prairie View A&M University (Tex.), www.pvamu.edu Rust College (Miss.), www.rustcollege.edu Saint Augustine's College (N.C.), www.st-aug.edu Saint Paul's College (Va.), www.saintpauls.edu Saint Philip's College (Tex.) www.accd.edu/spc/spcmain/spc.htm Savannah State University (Ga.), www.savstate.edu Selma University (Ala.) Shaw University (N.C.), www.shawuniversity.edu Shelton State Community College (Ala.) www.sheltonstate.edu/sscc Shorter College (Ark.) South Carolina State University (S.C.), www.scsu.edu Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge (La.), www.subr.edu Southern University, New Orleans (La.), www.suno.edu Southern University, Shreveport (La.), www.susla.edu Southwestern Christian College (Tex.), www.swcc.edu Spelman College (Ga.), www.spelman.edu Stillman College (Ala.), www.stillman.edu Talladega College (Ala.), www.talladega.edu Tennessee State University (Tenn.), www.tnstate.edu Texas College (Tex.), www.texascollege.edu Texas Southern University (Tex.), www.tsu.edu Tougaloo College (Miss.), www.tougaloo.edu Trenholm State Technical College (Ala.) www.trenholmtech.cc.al.us Tuskegee University (Ala.), www.tuskegee.edu University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (Ark.), www.uapb.edu University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (Md.), www.umes.edu University of the District of Columbia (D.C.), www.universityofdc.org University of the Virgin Islands (V.I.), www.uvi.edu Virginia State University (Va.), www.vsu.edu Virginia Union University (Va.), www.vuu.edu Voorhees College (S.C.), www.voorhees.edu West Virginia State University (W.Va.), www.wvstateu.edu Wilberforce University (Ohio), www.wilberforce.edu Wiley College (Tex.), www.wileyc.edu Winston-Salem State University (N.C.), www.wssu.edu Xavier University of Louisiana (La.), www.xula.edu Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. 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