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April marks the final month of Amistad’s HBCU school newspaper blog series, and after a winter when much of the United States has been slammed by what feels like never-ending storms and freezes, it has been a pleasure to page through old issues of Hampton Institute’s Agricultural News and enjoy a much needed breath of spring! Hampton University began its existence as Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1868. From the beginning, the agricultural component of the schoo

Amistad’s current blog series highlights the Historically Black Colleges and Universities found in our School Newspaper Collection. Today we feature Howard University. In 1866, members of the American Missionary Association met to discuss the best way to help educate the large number of African Americans who had recently been freed from slavery following the U.S. Civil War. The A.M.A. – the interdenominational organization whose records make up the core collection of the Amis

Our current blog series on HBCUs represented in the Amistad Research Center’s school newspaper collection shows, collectively, the integral role they have played in educational history of the United States. We focus on specific colleges and universities that offer interesting insights into student life, events, and unique school histories. This week we highlight Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bennett College, founded in 1837 in the basement of Warnersville Met

Our current blog series is focused on HBCUs which we will examine through the lens of the Amistad Research Center’s collection of school newspapers. For this post, I decided to look at the newspapers of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, commonly known as FAMU, which provided an interesting look into the school’s culture and values over the years. The university was founded on October 3, 1887 as the State Normal School for Colored Students (later renamed Florida

Our current blog series on HBCUs represented in the Amistad Research Center’s school newspaper collection shows, collectively, the integral role they have played in educational history of the United States. We focus on specific colleges and universities that offer interesting insights into student life, events, and unique school histories. This week we highlight Prairie View A&M University. Ever since its founding in 1876, Prairie View A&M University has been a part of a rich

Our first blog series of 2018 continues this week, focusing on the Historically Black Colleges and Universities represented in Amistad Research Center’s School Newspaper Collection. This week, we highlight two newspapers of Meharry Medical College. Meharry was founded in 1876 in Nashville, Tennessee as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College. At the time, it was the only African American medical school in the South. Amistad holds Meharry newspapers under two diffe