Alcorn State University is a public historically black land-grant university adjacent to Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871 and was the first black land grant college established in the United States. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
Former name: Alcorn University · (1871–1878) · Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College · (1878–1974)
Motto: "Service, Scholarship, Dignity" · "Where Knowledge and Character Matter"
Type: Public historically black land-grant university
Established: May 13, 1871
Parent institution: Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning
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