Today’s featured HBCU is Livingstone College!
It was originally founded in 1879 in Concord, NC and relocated to a 40 acre farm in Salisbury, NC in 1882. Today it occupies a beautiful 272 acres in Salisbury, North Carolina. It has 16 buildings listed with the National Register of Historic Places known as The Livingstone College Historic District. It’s a private institution that currently offers 23 degree programs and grants associates and bachelors degrees.
It is home to the Blue Bears and competes in 12 CIAA Division 2 Varsity sports including Basketball, Football, Golf, Cross Country, and Track and Field Indoor and Outdoor.
Livingstone hosted the first African American intercollegiate football game on its front lawn against Johnson C. Smith University in 1892. Their friendly rivalry continues to this day.
Livingstone is home to an incredible record of first moments for African Americans. It produced the first Black Neurosurgeon, (Solomon Carter Fuller); The first African American Mayor of Salisbury (Wiley E. Nash) and Spartanburg, SC (James Talley); And The first African American president of the National Education Association (Elizabeth Duncan Koontz).
Other notable Alumni include:
Charles Sterling Acolatse – Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
Ben Coates – Former Tight End for the New England Patriots
Ruth Whitehead Whaley – The first Black woman admitted to practice law in North Carolina and the third Black woman admitted to practice law in New York.
Under current President Dr. Anthony J. Davis, the college has obtained nearly 40 million dollars in private gifts and a 13% increase in enrollment!!!
GIVE IT UP FOR LIVINGSTONE UNIVERSITY!!!!!
