Alabama & Georgia HBCUs

By: CeCe Heard

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.

Alabama State University

Huntsville, Alabama Public Christian 1875 Taught industrial education and became the

“State Normal and Industrial School at Huntsville.”

Alabama A&M

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).

Concordia College

Fairfield, Alabama Public Christian 1898 Saw educated leadership as the paramount

need in the black community.

Miles College

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Public Christian 1875

Stillman College

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

Tuskegee University

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."

Talladega 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.

Bishop State Community 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.

Oakwood College

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.

Clark Atlanta 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.

Fort Valley State University

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.

Morehouse 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.

Morris Brown 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.

Paine College

Atlanta, Georgia Private Christian 1881 America's oldest historically Black college

for women

Spelman College