CULTURE: BLACK HISTORY MOMENT

HBCU'S - HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND/OR UNIVERSITIES. THERE ARE ABOUT 100 HBCU'S MORE OR LESS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES & VIRGIN ISLANDS. THIS INCLUDES FOUR & TWO-YEAR PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLEGES/ UNIVERSITIES. I AM AN ALUMNUS OF VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY! VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY WAS FOUNDED MARCH 6, 1882, & IS THE FIRST FULLY STATE-SUPPORTED FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. VSU WAS ALSO KNOWN AS: VIRGINIA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTION IN 1902, LATER CHANGED TO VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE FOR NEGROES (1923), SHORTENED TO VIRGINIA STATE COLLEGE IN 1946, AND FINALLY BECAME VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY (1979). VSU IS LOCATED ATOP A ROLLING LANDSCAPE OVERLOOKING THE APPOMATTOX RIVER & THE VILLAGE OF ETTRICK, VIRGINIA. LEARN MORE ABOUT MY ALMA MATER BY VISITING: http://www.vsu.edu/ YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT WHAT VSU HAS TO OFFER. GO TROJANS!