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Langston University

Langston University is an institution of higher learning located in Langston

Langston, Oklahoma

Langston is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The population was 1,670 at the United States Census, 2000....
, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
, USA. It is the only historically black college in the state, and the westernmost historically black college in the United States. Though located in a rural setting just 10 miles east of Guthrie

Guthrie, Oklahoma

Guthrie is a city in and the county seat of Logan County, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City Metroplex. The population was 9,925 at the United States Census, 2000....
, Langston also serves an urban mission with University Centers in both Tulsa and Oklahoma City

Oklahoma city

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area...
.

ston University is named for John Mercer Langston

John Mercer Langston

John Mercer Langston was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, and political activist. He was the first graduate of the law school at Howard University and the first president of now Virginia State University....
(1829-1897), civil rights

Civil rights

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pioneer, first African American

African American

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member of Congress from Virginia

Virginia

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, founder of the Howard University

Howard University

Howard University is a private university, coeducational, nonsectarian, Historically black colleges and universities university located in Washington, D.C., United States....
Law School, and American consul-general to Haiti

Haiti

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Langston University is an institution of higher learning located in Langston

Langston, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Guthrie, Oklahoma

Oklahoma city

Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area...
.

History

Langston University is named for John Mercer Langston

John Mercer Langston

Civil rights

African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
member of Congress from Virginia

Virginia

Howard University

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
. The school was founded in 1897 and was known as the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University.

Poet Melvin B. Tolson

Melvin B. Tolson

Melvin Beaunorus Tolson was an United States Modernist poetry, educator, columnist, and politician. His work concentrated on the experience of African Americans and includes several poetic histories....
taught at Langston from 1947 until 1964. Tolson was portrayed by Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an United States actor and film director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B....
in the film The Great Debaters

The Great Debaters

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.

Academics

The University offers associate's

Associate's degree

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, bachelor's

Bachelor's degree

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, master's

Master's degree

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, and doctoral degrees

Academic degree

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in a variety of discipline

List of academic disciplines

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s. It is known as a leader in the field of agricultural research, and hosts the internationally recognized E (Kika) de la Garza Institute for Goat

Goat

The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep: both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae....
Research. The School currently has an open doors admissions policy. LU has nearly 3,000 students from several states representing a diverse student body at an Oklahoma college.

The university was accredited with a Doctorate

Doctorate

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of Physical Therapy

Physical therapy

Physical therapy is a health care profession which provides services to individuals and populations to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability throughout life....
program in 2005.

Student activities

The student life at Langston University garnered the attention of BET

Black Entertainment Television

Black Entertainment Television is an American cable television based in Washington, D.C. and targeted towards young black people and urban audiences in the United States....
and the second season of the reality television show College Hill was filmed there.

The university boasts one of the nation's top choral programs and its nearly 150 piece show band is sought after for bowl games, parades, government ceremonies and marching competitions across the nation and abroad.

The Langston University Quiz Bowl team will be featured on the 2009 "Black College Quiz" show airing nationally throughout Black History Month.

Notable alumni

Footnotes

External links

Official web site