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Langston University (LU) is a public land-grant historically black university in Langston, Oklahoma. It is the only historically black college in the state and the westernmost four-year public HBCU in the United States. The main campus in Langston is a rural setting 10 miles (16 km) east of Guthrie. The university also serves an urban mission ...
t. e. This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community. [1][2] Alabama leads the nation with the number of HBCUs, followed by North Carolina, then Georgia.
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...
Jackson began working at Langston in 2014 as the university’s dean and a professor in its School of Education and Behavioral Sciences. She later became Langston’s vice president for academic ...
Ruth Ray Jackson, who has served as Langston University’s interim president since last July, received the permanent post on Monday from the OSU/A&M Board of Regents, which govern the state’s ...
Known for. First African-American and Native American female aviator. Spouse. Claude Glenn. . . (m. 1917, separated soon after [1]) . Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) [2] was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] and ...
Alabama A&M University. Auburn University (designated as a land-grant college in 1872 under the name Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) Tuskegee University (private) Though Alabama A&M is Alabama's official 1890 Morrill Act institution, the mission and unique history of Tuskegee are so similar to those of the 1890 institutions that ...
Columbia University. Occupation. Poet. Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (February 6, 1898 – August 29, 1966) was an American poet, educator, columnist, and politician. As a poet, he was influenced both by Modernism and the language and experiences of African Americans, and he was deeply influenced by his study of the Harlem Renaissance.