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Historically Black Colleges and Universities

What was the first state-supported college founded to educate black teachers?

Alabama State University was founded at Salem, as the State Normal School and University for Colored Students and Teachers in 1874. It was the first state-supported institution in the United States to train black teachers. In 1887 the institution moved to its present site in Montgomery.

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