Bluefield State College
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Bluefield State College began as a graded high school to train Negro teachers; established by an act of state legislation in 1895, Bluefield Colored Institute was founded to serve the segregated public schools of the West Virginia coal mine camps; opened 6 Dec. 1896 under the direction of Principal Hamilton Hack with ten female and ten male students; graduated its first college class in 1929; immediately following the 1954 Brown vs Topeka (Kansas) Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, three white students enrolled; by the end of the 1954-1955 school year, one third of the student population was white; by 1967 the previously all black college had a white majority; now a predominately white institution; official names are Bluefield Colored Institute (1895-1929), Bluefield Institute (1929-1931), Bluefield State Teachers College (1931-1943), and Bluefield State College (1943- ).
Bluefield State College began as a graded high school to train Negro teachers; established by an act of state legislation in 1895, Bluefield Colored Institute was founded to serve the segregated public schools of the West Virginia coal mine camps; opened 6 Dec. 1896 under the direction of Principal Hamilton Hack with ten female and ten male students; graduated its first college class in 1929; immediately following the 1954 Brown vs Topeka (Kansas) Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, three white students enrolled; by the end of the 1954-1955 school year, one third of the student population was white; by 1967 the previously all black college had a white majority; now a predominately white institution; official names are Bluefield Colored Institute (1895-1929), Bluefield Institute (1929-1931), Bluefield State Teachers College (1931-1943), and Bluefield State College (1943- ).
Presidents include Hamilton Hatter, principal (1896-1906), Robert Page Sims, principal (1906-1936), Henry Lake Dickason (1936-1952), Gregory W. Whitings, acting president (1952-1953 and 1957-1958), Stephen J. Wright (1953-1957), Leroy B. Allen (1958-1965), E.J. Scrafford, acting president (1965-1966), Wendell G. Hardway (1966-1973), Billy L. Coffindaffer (1973-1975), James J. Rowley, acting president (1975-1976), J. Wade Gilley (1976 1978), William H. Brothers, acting rresident (1978), Jerold O. Dugger (1978-1988), Chester L. Foster, acting president (1988), Gregory A. Adkins (1988-1993), Leonard Nelson, acting president (1993), and Robert E. Moore (1993- )
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