Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; African American universities and colleges; Tallahassee (Fla.); Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1886
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 71
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee, Florida... ...The site of the university is the 375-acre slave plantation of Florida Governor William Pope Duval, whose mansion, today the site of the Carnegie Library, burned in 1905. On October 3, 1887, the State Normal College for Colored Students began classes, and became a land-grant college four years later when it received $7,500 under the Second Morrill Act, and its name was changed to State Normal and Industrial College for Colored Students. However, it was not an official institution of higher learning until the 1905 Buckman Act, which transferred control from the Department of Education to the Board of Control, creating what was the foundation for the modern Florida A&M University....In 1909, the name of the college was once again changed, to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, and in 1953 the name was finally changed to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Florida A&M is the only publicly funded historically black college or university in the state of Florida." [SOURCE: "Florida A&M University." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_A%26M_University. Accessed 4 Sep. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University