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West Virginia State College WV861 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Joseph Landis
Founded as West Virginia Colored Institute in 1891, renamed West Virginia Collegiate Institute in 1915 and West Virginia State College in 1929. Voluntarily desegregated in 1954. First state public four-year college and U. S. black land-grant college to be fully accredited.
West Virginia Department of Culture and History
Institute campus on WV 25, 0.5 miles east of Institute Exit - at Wallace Hall. Kanawha County West Virginia
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