Agricultural and Technical State University - Ayantee Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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A fi.T . . . Its History ... Its Administrators . . . Its Faculty . . . Its Students . . . Its Alumni Dudley Hall (1893-1929 Its Successor, Today Men count seventy-five years slowly in their own lives. A man of seventy-five has exceeded his al- lotted span. Institutions count seven-five years quickly. The Agricultural and Technical College at seventy-five retains the youthful vigor, optimism, and ambition which identify it in spirit with the young adults it serves But it has also attained maturity in its years of struggle to prepare a de- prived ethnic group for competition in American society. Now, on the seventy-fifth — the diamond — anniversary, we of the college pause to glance into the history of an institution which was forced to walk before it was officially born. Known as the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race, the institution began its operation as an annex of Shaw University in Raleigh during the academic year of 1 890-91 . Later, the North Carolina General Assembly voted to establish a college which would provide for the colored race a limited program m practical agriculture and the mechanic arts, end such branches of learning as related thereto, not exclud- ing academical and classical instruction. Still later,

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1901 — Dr James Dudley talks with coed on March 9, 1891 — months after the college opened Its doors, the act was ratified. This curious circum- stance occurred because the Morrill Act passed by Congress in 1890 required that funds for land-grant colleges be allocated to both races in all states which had separate school systems for the two races Having been established by the North Carolina Leg- islature in 1889, the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the White Race, in the fall of 1890, was eagerly awaiting its share of funds provided by the Morrill Act, That college, however, could receive nothing until money had been given to a college for Negroes Therefore, the Board of Trustees of the A. and M College for the White Race (Raleigh) was empowered to make temporary arrangements for colored students. The Board of Trustees worked out with Shaw University of Raleigh a plan by which the A, and M, College for the Colored Race operated as an annex of Shaw University during the academic years 1890-1891, 1891-1892, and 1892-1893, The law of 1891 stipulated that the A and M, College for the Colored Race should be located 1902- - Ihoir tra;r (jt.i toln ii was ditterciit, bul giiiij iiijl ul!c:i .a AU troni I HJl through 1906. They returned for good in 1928, ! ' SfifSlf. ' • r ' imr m ' «r ' i