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Website. langston.edu. Langston University (LU) is a public land-grant historically black university in Langston, Oklahoma. It is the only historically black college in the state and the westernmost four-year public HBCU in the United States. The main campus in Langston is a rural setting 10 miles (16 km) east of Guthrie.
– Bessie Coleman With the age of commercial flight still a decade or more in the future, Coleman quickly realized that in order to make a living as a civilian aviator she would have to become a "barnstorming" stunt flier, performing dangerous tricks in the air with the then-still-novel technology of airplanes for paying audiences. But, to succeed in this highly competitive arena, she would ...
Langston is a town in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,619 as of the 2020 United States census . [ 4 ] Langston is home to Langston University , the only historically black college in Oklahoma.
It was the largest corporate donation in the university’s history. The site now serves as Langston’s Oklahoma City campus and houses the university’s Center for Media and Community Advancement.
Inman E. Page (December 29, 1853 - December 21, 1935) was a Baptist leader and educator in Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee. He was president of four schools: the Lincoln Institute, Langston University, Western University, and Roger Williams University and principal of Douglass High School in Oklahoma City. He and George Milford were the first ...
Before arriving at Langston, Jackson spent 11 years at Louisiana State University-Shreveport, where she worked as a faculty member, graduate program director and department chair.
JoAnn Haysbert. JoAnn Haysbert (née Wright) is an American educator and academic administrator currently serving as Chancellor, Executive Vice-President and Provost [1] of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. [2] Previously, she served as Langston University 's fifteenth and first female president, [3] from 2005 to 2011, [4] making her the ...
Before her death in 1995, Fisher was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and also was a professor at Langston University. She died of cancer, in Oklahoma City in October 1995. [11] In 1996 she was inducted posthumously in the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame. The University of Oklahoma dedicated the Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Garden in her honor.