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Looking at the history behind Langston University, Oklahoma s only HBCU
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Updated: 7:05 PM CST Feb 22, 2021
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Updated: 7:05 PM CST Feb 22, 2021
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MILES NORTH OF OKLAHOMA CITY IN RURAL LOGAN COUNTY SITS A COLLEGE CAMPUS SURROUNDED BY PASTURES AND FARMLAND, BUT THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN MEETS THE EYE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY IS OKLAHOMA’S FIRST AND ONLY HBCU WITH NEARLY 3,000 STUDENTS ACROSS ITS THREE CAMPUSES IN OKLAHOMA AND WITH 40 UNDERGRAD AND GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS, AND WE’RE NAMED AFTER JOHN MERCER LANGSTON. A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK IF WE WERE NAMED AFTE LANGSTON HUGHES. NO LANGSTON HUGHES. THIS IS LANGSTON HUGHES’S UNCLE THE DR. LYNN SIMPSON IS THE DEAN AND DIRECTOR OF LIBRARIES AT LANGSTON UNIVERSITY OUR 1921 YEARBOOK. THESE ARE SOME OF THE ORIGINAL BUILDINGS AND THIS WAS THE FIRST BUILDING AT LANGSTON UNIVERSITY THIS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. SHE SAYS WHAT YOU SEE HERE TODAY IS THE CULMI ....

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