Family History of the HBCU that you currently attend or graduated from


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What is your Family History of the HBCU that you currently attend or graduated from?

I will start mine off.

My daddy graduated from Southern. My mother graduated from Grambling. Three daughters which includes myself all graduated from Southern.(Imagine Bayou Classic Time). Neighborhood I grew up in, all of the street names were named after HBCU. Guess what street we lived on and my parents currently live on "Southern" My uncle (mother's brother) lived on "Grambling", and all of their friends that live there are Graduates of Southern. Great time growing up and having a lot of fun. Great college tradition from both colleges.
 
NONE. I'm the 1st to attend and/or graduate.
Good thread though.
Maybe my kids can reply years from now when I have some.
:D
 

Let's see..

Both grandparents (mom's side) are Alcorn State graduates..

Father- Alcorn State graduate

Aunt (mom's baby sister) - Alcorn State graduate

Brother - Southern graduate

Me - Alcorn State graduate

(Knee baby brother) - Alcorn State graduate in May 2002

I forgot about...

2nd cousin...Alabama A&M graduate
2nd cousin...Jackson State graduate
 
I was the first person in my family since my maternal grandmother to go to a four year university full-time.

Thus, I am the first person in my family to have attended an HBCU (my grandmother earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Cuba).

Now, if you want, I can share the story of my College family with y'all (it is a great history!).

The institution that is now Bethune-Cookman College was founded in 1904 by Mary McLeod Bethune. All she had was five little girls, her young son, a $1.50, and faith in God. The only lad she could afford for her school was the old Daytona Beach City Dump. In other words, the land was not even good enough for Daytonans to put their garbage.

The students had no "school supplies" whatsoever. Their pencils were the burnt edges of branches and their writing tablets were discarded pieces of plywood.

To raise funds for what was then-called the Daytona Beach Normal Institute for Negro Girls, Mother Mary and the children sold sweet potato pies, sang spirituals, and actively yet humbly cultivated philanthropists as friends of the institution.

Because the Klan was a pervasive and powerful scourge throughout all of Florida during that era, Mary and her lifelong dream of missionary work through education were always in danger. On at least two separate occasions, the cowards in white robes rode into campus in a vain attempt to keep Mary from fulfilling her Divine Calling. The most infamous came on the eve of a municipal election in 1921.

Long before the Freedom Riders, Mary McLeod Bethune was working tirelessly to register Black voters as she knew the benefit of political empowerment to uplift an oppressed people. Her registration drive was so successful that city leaders in Daytona Beach deemed it necessary to put out the fire of freedom and dignity before it grew further.

The "American Taliban" cut off all of the power to that entire part of town and then rode in under the cover of darkness as all cowards do. The only light visible was from the torchlights glistening off of the shotgun barrels.

Mother Mary's students, being Black children in Florida at that most dangerous time, knew exactly what the hoods and torches meant. Terrified, they ran to Dr. Bethune's home.

She spoke to them with a serene yet confident calmness that reassured them as she said "Be not dismayed for this too shall pass."

She then turned to her "maintenance manager" and instructed him to turn on the lights of the campus on the cowards. *Mother Mary, being a "strong, independent Black woman" long before Jet magazine ever coined the phrase, already had her own power plant on campus.

The Klan left without further incident. The Black population of Daytona followed Dr. Bethune to the polls and changed the political landscape of Daytona Beach forever - in the early 1920's.

**Dr. Bethune was only twenty-nine when she founded BETHUNE-COOKMAN COLLEGE.
 
Father-Southern University BS '50, Texas Southern BS '62

Mother-Southern University BA '60 (Masters at PWC)

Sister-Southern University BA '77 (Masters at PWC)

Me-Southern University BA '80, Southern University Law Center JD '83

Niece-Southern University, presently a freshman

Son-Southern University Lab School, presently in the first grade

Two 1st cousins graduated from Southern; Five 2nd cousins who graduated from Southern

Father's brother and wife graduated from Arkansas A & M

Two cousins attending Southern now, one of which is Joshua Davis #93, starting defensive end with the Dog Day D!
 
Father - Jackson State University and Meharry Medical College

Mother - Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College

Sister - Howard University and Meharry Medical College

Sister - Howard University

Brother-In-Law - Fisk University and Meharry Medical College

Aunt - Prairie View A&M University

Aunt - Meharry Medical College

Uncle - Tennessee State University

First Cousin - Howard University

First Cousin - Prairie View A&M University

Me - Spelman College and Prairie View A&M University
 
Me - Southern (Grad degrees - PWC)

Wife - Southern

Mother - Leland College (Baker, La.)

Siblings (2 Brothers and 1 Sister) - Southern

2 Nieces - 1 Southern, 1 Purdue

Nephew - MIT

Brother-in-Law - Southern

3 Sisters-in-Law - Southern

11 Cousins (that I can think of) - Southern

1 Cousin - Grambling

Regards.
 
Thanks Tara for the reminder

I have two cousins who are graduates of Meharry Medical College. And, three graduated from to Texas Southern and my mom's brother and her nephew graduated from Prairie View.

BLACKER THE COLLEGE, THE SWEETER THE KNOWLEDGE!
 
Father===> 9th grade
Mother===> 8th grade
Sister#1===> GSU, Master's GSU, Plus 30 NWST, LaTech
Sister#2===> GSU, Master's GSU, Plus 30 GSU
Brother (father)===> SU, Master's LSU
Sister (father)====>GSU transferred TxSU (BS degree) still GSU fan
Brother (father)====> SU
Neice (Sister#1)====>GSU, Master's TxSU
Nephew-in-law (neice above)===GSU, MBA (Houston Baptist)
Daughter===> SU (Education Major)
Son#1=====> GSU (Education Major)
Son#2=====> GSU (Education Major)
MsBigg=====> SU, Master's SU, Plus 30 SU (enrolled)
MikeBigg====> GSU, Graduate Studies/SU, enrolled in MBA program via University of Phoenix (On-line)

Grew up in community with numerous older GSU graduates or former students. Closest male cousin (like brother) & his sister both GSU grads also!
 
Father - Grad of PV and taught engineering there and SU.

Aunt (mother's sister) - PV grad in business

Late aunt (mother's sister) - attended PV

Yours truly - Engineering grad of PV

Most family members (mother's side) who are college grads went to Fort Valley State. (A few may have been at Alabama State.) Some went to Albany State and the Atlanta University Center. Most of my father's family and some of my mother's family went to Tuskegee.
 
My family is mostly a Jackson State Family

I was the first member in my family to attend Grambling. I created some friction in the family, b/c now some of my family members are following my footsteps.;) My children will not have a choice but to attend a Historically Black Institution, undergrad. See Signature.
 
Listing just immediate family, others family members are split between GSU and SU

mother: Grambling, Southern U.

father: Grambling, Southern U.

sister: Spelman College

GSUpe: Grambling, Georgia Institute of Technology

My damn sister messed up the Grambling tradition, but I love some Spelman College! Whoa nah!
 
Me-Grambling, Georgetown, Univ. of Arkansas

Mother-Grambling State

Maternal Aunt-Grambling

Father-Southern

Sister-Grambling State, Loyola, NYU

Brother-Xavier (NO), UCLA Med School

1st Cousin Male-Xavier (NO), Havard Med. School

1st Cousin Female-Xavier (NO), Univ. of Alabama Dental School

Paternal Aunts-Grambling

Great Aunt-UAPB, Univ. of Arkansas
 
My Legacy

Father - 1954 Arkansas AM&N College (UAPB)

Mother - 1955 Arkansas AM&N College (UAPB)

Brother - Attended Jackson State University, 1977-80

Brother - 1983 University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Sister-in-law - 1985 University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Husband - 1993 University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Me - 1994 University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Sister-in-law - 2001 University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Paternally:

Aunt - 1948 Arkansas AM&N College (UAPB)

Aunt - 1950 Grambling State University

Cousin - 1968 Arkansas AM&N College (UAPB)

Cousin - 1970 Arkansas AM&N College (UAPB)

2 Cousins - 1988 University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Maternally:
Aunt - 1951 Arkansas AM&N College (UAPB)
 
Uncle.............. Mississippi Industrial College

1st Cousin.......Xavier University (New Orleans)

1st Cousin.... Grambling

Brother... Attended Paul Quinn College

Brother... University of Louisville (After stint in the Army)

Me.......... Alcorn State University

Sister...... Attended Jackson State

Sister.......Jackson State University

Sister....... University of Southern Mississippi

Niece..... Senior, Alcorn State University
 

Self - Grambling

Wife - Grambling

Mother and Father - Grambling

Aunt (maternal) - Grambling

Aunt (maternal) - Texas Southern

Cousin - Howard U

Cousin - TxSU
 
Grandma- Utica College (now Tougaloo College)

Mother- Jackson State Univ (BS), Atlanta University/CAU (Masters)

Father- Selma University, AAMU(BS)(Masters)

Older Sister- AAMU(BS), University of Pittsburgh(Masters)

Me- AAMU(BS) (graduating this year Spring 02)

Younger Sister- AAMU


Aunt- AAMU

Uncle- AAMU

Cousin- AAMU

Cousin- FAMU

Cousin- Meharry Medical College

thats all I can think of right now!but on my mom side I have alotta relatives that went to JSU and some that still teach there.
 
Excellent Thread!!

Me : Grambling
Wife : Grambling
Son : Grambling
Dad : Dillard
Sister : Dillard
Mom : Spelman/Dillard
Brother : Attended Southern
Sister : Spelman
Uncle : Morehouse
1st Cousin : Morehouse
Uncle : Southern
 
Interesting....

I'll start w/the good first. LOL

My chillun: Future HBCUers (and hopefully at least 1 PVer)
God-daughter: PVAMU (next year fo' sho)
ME: PVAMU - 1988
Mother: PVAMU - 1970
Father: PVAMU - 1964
3 maternal aunts: PVAMU various years
1 maternal aunt: TxSU
maternal grandmother: PV College - 1942 (????)
maternal great-grandfather: PV Normal Institute (lol - I miss granddaddy's stories :() - 1903
several maternal cousins: PV
a TON of maternal first cousins: TxSU
'spackling' of maternal first cousins: GSU, several SUers, JSU, FAMU, and Howard

My fathers' peeps originated near Baton Rouge and during those family reunions, I recall a TON of SU and blue/gold being worn.

I refuse to state why my oldest sister decided to go to a PWC in Cali as well as others in the family who .... well... :( decided to do PWC to run that ball, jump, flop on their back, etc....
 
My Father - Jackson State University (SPR 51 Charter Line KAPSI)

My Mother - Jackson State University (Fall 61 DST)

My Older Brother - Jackson State University

Myself - Jackson State University (SPR 88 KAPSI)

My Younger Brother - Jackson State University (SPR 91 KAPSI)

3 Aunts - Jackson State University

2 Aunts - Hampton University

1 Uncle - Tougaloo College

11 First Cousins - Jackson State University

Too many Second and Third Cousins to count - Jackson State University.

Dayumm, we believe in some nepotism hunh ??
 
Me: 1993 UAPB grad
Sister: Attend PWC (got married and quit)
Sister: 1990 PWC grad
Sister: 2001 UAPB grad
Step-Brother: Attended UAPB 1977-79 (country boy around too many girls)
Nephew: Freshman at UAPB
Wife: 94' UAPB grad
Mother-in-Law: UAPB
Father-in-Law: UAPB
Brother-in-Law: UAPB
Sister-in-Law: UAPB
Cousin: 93' UAPB/ UAPB instructor and current Miss. State doctoral program (tough single good lookin sister!!!)
Cousin: 95' UAPB grad
2 Daughters and a son and several nieces and nephews: FUTURE UAPB grads........
 
Mom attended Texas Southern University (pre-nursing)
Dad attended Prairie View University(until he got drafted)

I was the first to graduate from an HBCU
Texas Southern University
 
My Mom and Dad went to PVU and really didn't push the issue when it came time for me to choose schools until the last minute. I had to get out of L.A. and Texas was too close do to Family, so I choose the next closest and by far the best Southern U. My sister chose Hampton the same year. Relatives represent PVU, GRAMBLING, and TEXAS SOUTHERN.
Wow what nice weather we are having today.
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Me - Grambling, current TSU

Mother - Southern

Aunts - Southern

Cousins - Grambling

Brother - Dillard

Brother - MaryMount

Nephew - Have to work on sis-n-law. But, I think I can get that HBCU enrollment status.. :D
 
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