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Florida A&M University

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Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee, Florida. [1]

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Abolitionism

Abolitionism is a general term which describes the movement to end slavery.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps

The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) is one of the three primary commissioning sources for officers in the United States Air Force, the other two being the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) and Air Force Officer Training School (OTS).

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All-America

An All-America team is a hypothetical American sports team composed of outstanding amateur players.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (but commonly or;MacKay, p. 29. November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist.

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Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps

The Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC, AROTC, or SROTC) is the United States Army component of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent.

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Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) is a research, policy, and advocacy organization of public research universities, land-grant institutions, state university systems, and higher education organizations.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Black Enterprise

Black Enterprise is a black-owned multimedia company.

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Carnegie library

A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

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Carnegie Library at FAMU

The Carnegie Library at FAMU is a historic building on the campus of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Castell V. Bryant

Castell Vaughn Bryant was the interim president of Florida A&M University between January 2005 and May 2007.

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College Football Hall of Fame

The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football.

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Colonial Revival architecture

Colonial Revival (also Neocolonial, Georgian Revival or Neo-Georgian) architecture was and is a nationalistic design movement in the United States and Canada.

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Corrine Brown

Corrine Brown (born November 11, 1946) is an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida from 1993 to 2017.

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Desegregation

Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.

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Elmira Mangum

Elmira Mangum was the 11th President of Florida A&M University (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University), taking office on April 1, 2014.

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Essence (magazine)

Essence is a monthly magazine for African-American women between the ages of 18 and 49.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida A&M Hospital

Florida A&M Hospital (1911-1971) was the first institution in Florida providing medical care to African Americans, who, during the segregation period, were not permitted to receive care at whites-only hospitals.

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Florida A&M Rattlers and Lady Rattlers

The Florida A&M Rattlers represent Florida A&M University (FAMU) in college athletics.

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Florida A&M University

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Florida Classic

The Florida Classic is the annual college football rivalry game between Bethune–Cookman University and the Florida A&M University.

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Florida Constitution of 1885

Florida's Constitution of 1885, its fifth, was drawn up by the Constitutional Convention of 1885.

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Florida State University

Florida State University (Florida State or FSU) is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a campus in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Fred Gainous

Fred Gainous was born in 1947, and his hometown is Tallahassee, Florida.

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Frederick S. Humphries

Frederick Stephen Humphries (born December 26, 1935 in Apalachicola, Florida) is an American academic administrator and chemistry professor.

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Hispanic

The term Hispanic (hispano or hispánico) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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Historically black colleges and universities

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.

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Honda

is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, and power equipment.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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International student

Foreign students are those who travel to a country different from their own for the purpose of tertiary study.

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J. R. E. Lee

John Robert Edward Lee, Sr. (January 26, 1864 – April 6, 1944) was an early leader in African-American education.

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Jake Gaither

Alonzo Smith "Jake" Gaither (April 11, 1903 – February 18, 1994) was an American football coach.

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James H. Ammons

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John W. Thompson

John Wendell Thompson (born April 24, 1949) is the chairman of Microsoft.

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Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs

Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, II (September 28, 1821 – August 14, 1874) was a Presbyterian minister and a prominent African-American officeholder during Reconstruction.

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Land-grant university

A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.

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Larry Robinson (chemist)

Larry Robinson is an American academic, administrator, former chemist and the current President of Florida A&M University (FAMU).

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Leon County Schools

Leon County Schools (LCS) is a school district headquartered in the LCS Admin Complex in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.

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Leon County, Florida

Leon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Leon High School

Leon High School is a public high school in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.

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List of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University alumni

The following is a list of notable people associated with Florida A&M University, located in the American city of Tallahassee, Florida.

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Microform

Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of documents, typically either films or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing.

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Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern and the Mid-Atlantic United States.

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Money (magazine)

Money is a magazine that is published by Meredith Corporation.

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Nathan B. Young

Nathan Benjamin Young (September 15, 1862—July 19, 1933) was an African-American educator who helped move forward black education in the early 20th century.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

The Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program is a college-based, commissioned officer training program of the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County.

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Public university

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.

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Quincy, Florida

Quincy is a city in Gadsden County, Florida, United States.

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Rattlesnake

Rattlesnakes are a group of venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers).

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Rudolph Weaver

Rudolph Weaver (April 17, 1880 – November 10, 1944) was an American architect, university professor and administrator renowned for various buildings that he designed in Florida, Idaho and Washington, many of which are academic.

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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

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Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) is a collegiate athletic conference consisting mostly of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), with all but one member located in the Southern United States.

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State University System of Florida

The State University System of Florida (SUSF or SUS) is a system of twelve public universities in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Sun-Sentinel

The Sun-Sentinel is the main daily newspaper of Broward County, Florida.

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Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) is a private, not-for-profit community healthcare system founded in 1948.

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Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review is a college admission services company offering test preparation services, tutoring and admissions resources, online courses, and books published by Random House.

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Thomas DeSaille Tucker

Thomas DeSaille Tucker or Thomas DeSaliere Tucker (July 21, 1844 – 1903) was an African-born lawyer, educator, and missionary.

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Thurgood Marshall College Fund

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) is an American non-profit organization that supports and represents nearly 300,000 students attending its 47 member-schools that include public historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), medical schools, and law schools.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

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University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst (abbreviated UMass Amherst and colloquially referred to as UMass or Massachusetts) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system.

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Urban 13

The Urban 13 was a research-sharing association originally between thirteen public urban universities, but eventually grew to include 22 institutions when it was succeeded by the Great Cities' Universities coalition in 1998.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Wally Smith (mathematician)

Walter Laws "Wally" Smith (born November 12, 1926) is a British-born American mathematician, known for his contributions to applied probability theory.

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WANM

WANM (90.5 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting a college radio (urban contemporary) format.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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White Americans

White Americans are Americans who are descendants from any of the white racial groups of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, or in census statistics, those who self-report as white based on having majority-white ancestry.

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White people

White people is a racial classification specifier, used mostly for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality, and point of view, the term has at times been expanded to encompass certain persons of North African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, persons who are often considered non-white in other contexts.

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William Augustus Edwards

William Augustus Edwards, also known as William A. Edwards, (December 8, 1866 – March 30, 1939) was an Atlanta-based American architect renowned for the educational buildings, courthouses and other public and private buildings that he designed in Florida, Georgia and his native South Carolina.

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William Pope Duval

William Pope Duval (September 4, 1784 – March 19, 1854) was the first civilian governor of Florida Territory, succeeding Andrew Jackson, who had been military governor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_A%26M_University

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