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Delaware State College – First College for Blacks in Delaware

Delaware State College – First College for Blacks in Delaware is a Delaware historical marker in Dover, Kent County, dedicated 1988.

Kent County · dedicated 1988 · 1200 North Dupont Highway, Dover

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Established May 15, 1891, by an act of the Delaware General Assembly as the State College for Colored Students, by virtue of the 1890 Morrill Land-Grant Act and under the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act of Congress. Incorporated July 1, 1891. Reincorporated March 10, 1911. Name changed to Delaware State College in 1947.

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