Beverly returned to Alabama as assistant principal at the Lincoln Normal School in There were no public secondary education schools for Blacks until The State Normal School Lincoln became a junior college in and a four-year institution in For more information, visit: www. The Birmingham Times. Lincoln School in Marion, Perry County, c. During the economic expansion that followed the end of the Great Depression, the university constructed eight permanent brick buildings, a swimming pool and a stadium for sporting events.
The state also allowed the institution to change its name to reflect changes in programs. Trenholm also gained for the university the recognition he desired. But none of those involvements were more important, or affected the institution more negatively, than involvement of students and employees in the Civil Rights Movement.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the first of the direct action campaigns of the modern Civil Rights Movement, awakened a new consciousness among the students, faculty and staff at Alabama State as they responded to the call for participants.
And state officials, in a state that was committed to segregation, exacted a heavy price on the college. The institution found itself even less well funded, a condition that in resulted in the loss of accreditation by SACS. Watkins set out to broaden the mission of the institution and to reclaim its SACS accreditation, the latter of which he achieved in In , the State Board of Education, then the governing board of the institution, approved a name change; the institution became Alabama State University.
It was during these years that the university began its continued path of steady growth and movement toward its current role as a comprehensive university. In , in an act of tremendous importance for the university, the Legislature established an independent board of trustees for Alabama State University. Baker William H. Harris , and Joe A. Lee Present. Gibson and Ed Nixon , the initial leaders of the boycott, selected Martin Luther King to head the Montgomery Improvement Association which became the organizational arm of the boycott.
Alabama State University now enrolls nearly 6, students in 50 undergraduate and graduate programs. It also now has two satellite campuses in Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama. Do you find this information helpful? Card was appointed president as a condition of the school's reorganization and in exchange for increased financial support from the state. The school remained in Marion for 13 years. The Alabama Colored People's University replaced the State Normal School after officials found a suitable location in Montgomery that was acceptable to whites.
Within eight months after passage of the enabling legislation, the university opened in Montgomery at Beulah Baptist Church, with nine faculty members under the leadership of the school's second president, William Burns Paterson, who was also white. Opposition to the university arose from local whites and ironically from prominent African American leader and president of Tuskegee Institute, Booker T.
Washington , who was concerned about the proximity of the new competitor to his school in Tuskegee. Paterson helped the school overcome the opposition of whites in Montgomery through networking, community organizing, and meetings with various influential black and white groups in Montgomery at Old Ship AME Zion Church and Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to build interest in the school. As a result of his efforts, the school began its first classes on October 3, Washington, however, never fully accepted the school's presence.
Although he was cordial with the school's leadership after the its relocation to Montgomery, he viewed the school as competition for notoriety, influence, and donors. ASU Mighty Marching Hornets Individuals who opposed state support of higher education for blacks successfully filed a suit in state court to impede the establishment of a college for blacks. In response, the Alabama Supreme Court repealed the legislation establishing support for a black university. For two years, the school operated on meager tuition fees, volunteers, and donations until the legislature reinstated its support in
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