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Today, it is the nation's third-oldest HBCU (historically black colleges and universities), Alabama State University. The first African-American woman to serve on the Alabama State Board was Democrat Ethel H. Hall (1987–2011) of Fairfield, Jefferson County.
May 18, 2021 · Sixty-seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court ended state-enforced segregated schools, Alabama’s public schools in the Black Belt have not reaped the benefit of school integration.
Jun 10, 2021 · At a Thursday work session, Alabama State Board of Education members discussed a potential resolution declaring the “preservation of intellectual freedom” in Alabama public schools and...
Oct 10, 2023 · Board, Alabama and other southern states had attempted to equalize school funding and teacher pay for blacks and whites while also passing laws designed to preserve segregation. Between the early 1940s and the early 1950s, pay for black teachers increased by almost 212 percent.
Nov 4, 2020 · Board of Education struck down racial segregation in public schools and invalidated Section 256. The 1901 Constitution has been amended so many times, it is now the longest constitution in the world. But efforts in 2004 and 2012 to remove Section 256 failed when a majority of Alabama voters supported keeping the segregationist language in the ...
In 1929 it became State Teachers College, Alabama State College for Negroes in 1948, and Alabama State College in 1954. In 1969, the State Board of Education, then the governing body of the university, approved a name change; the institution became Alabama State University.
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Jun 6, 2024 · Alabama’s oldest recorded African American schoolhouse that is still standing dates back to an 1867 church built by Mansfield Tyler, a self-educated, newly freed minister who later became one of the state’s first Black lawmakers. Today, the school’s owner is still seeking funds to fully restore it.
