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The 17th-ranked UCF Knights open the season with a 62-0 rout of Florida A&M Rattlers on Thursday night and Chris Pamatian was at Spectrum Stadium in Orlando Florida with My4oh7 keeping our #Sports fans #LockedIN. Stay #active with LockedIN Magazine
The 17th-ranked UCF Knights open the season with a 62-0 rout of Florida A&M Rattlers on Thursday night and Chris Pamatian was at Spectrum Stadium in Orlando Florida with My4oh7 keeping our #Sports fans #LockedIN. Stay #active with LockedIN Magazine
The 17th-ranked UCF Knights open the season with a 62-0 rout of Florida A&M Rattlers on Thursday night and Chris Pamatian was at Spectrum Stadium in Orlando Florida with My4oh7 keeping our #Sports fans #LockedIN. Stay #active with LockedIN Magazine
Founded in 1887 as the State Normal College for Colored Students, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is the only historically state supported educational facility for African Americans in Florida. It has always been co-educational. In 1890, the second Morrill Act was passed. This enabled the school to become the Black Land Grant College for the State of Florida. In 1891, the college was moved from its original location west of town to its present location, which was once the site of “Highwood,” Territorial Governor W.P. Duval’s slave plantation. It is on one of the highest hills in Tallahassee. The school was known as Florida A&M College from 1909 until 1953, when it attained university status.
On May 6, 1996, the historic Florida A&M College campus was listed in the National Register of Historic Places based on the school’s historic significance and the architectural style of its buildings. The designation also recognized the national achievements and contributions of FAMU students, alumni, faculty and staff. In 1997, in national competition, FAMU was named “College of the Year” in Time Magazine’s Princeton Review.
Built in 1908 with funds donated by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, this was the first Carnegie Library built on a Black Land-Grant college campus. Nathan Young, President of the State Normal College for Colored Students, with cooperation from the school’s alumni association, obtained a $10,000 donation from Carnegie to construct the library. A 1905 fire had destroyed Duval Hall, the college’s main academic building and original library. Carnegie Library, stocked with donations from alumni, was the first brick veneer building on this campus at the former location of Highwood Plantation. It was also the first building with indoor plumbing and electricity. During the 1950s and 1960s, the library served as an art gallery and education facility. In 1970, it became a religious center. In 1976, Florida A&M University President Benjamin Perry, Jr., designated it as the home of the Black Archives Research Center and Museum. In 1978, under the museum’s founding director, Dr. James N. Eaton, Sr., the library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2006, an addition to Carnegie Library was named in honor of Dr. Eaton and U.S. Representative Carrie Meek.