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Allen University is a private historically black university in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. It has more than 600 students and still serves a predominantly Black constituency. [2] The campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Allen University Historic District.
The school was named for Richard Allen who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E. Church). The university was one of several universities established by the A.M.E. Church in the South after the American Civil War and opened four years after the University of South Carolina officially excluded African Americans. Property in ...
The rise of the Benedict College and Allen University football programs hasn’t gone unnoticed. ... has been tracking the progress of the two historically black colleges in downtown Columbia and ...
Allen University was founded in 1870, and established its campus in Columbia in 1880. This Colonial Revival building, which still plays a prominent role in the campus, was built 1922–25 to a design by John Anderson Lankford (1874–1946) for the then-substantial sum of $165,000.
The 1946 Allen Yellow Jackets football team was an American football team that represented Allen University of Columbia, South Carolina, in the Southeastern Athletic Conference (SEAC) during the 1946 college football season. William "Buster" Lawson and Hooks Nelson were the team's coaches. [1]
There are 60 colleges and universities in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina in Columbia is the largest university in the state, by enrollment. [1] Trident Technical College in North Charleston is the largest two-year college. [2] The oldest institution is the College of Charleston, founded in 1770 and chartered ...
In 2002, Allen killed four people: a woman he picked up on a street in Columbia; a man who was in the restaurant where Allen worked; and two men at a Surry County, North Carolina, convenience store.
Beginning in February 1960, students at Allen University and Benedict College, two colleges in Columbia, began planning protests against segregation laws. On March 2, approximately fifty students from the two schools participated in lunch counter sit-ins , forcing the businesses to close for the day.