St. Augustine’s College science lab c. 1949

Science lab at St. Augustine’s College
c. 1949.

Now St. Augustine's University, the institution was founded in 1867 as Saint Augustine's Normal School.

In 1928, after the introduction of college-level curriculum for students to obtain a four-year degree, it became St. Augustine's College.
In 2012 the school became St. Augustine's University.

The school offers degrees in broadcast journalism, criminal justice, elementary education and many others.

In 1987 St. Augustine's became the first HBCU to have its own commercial radio and TV stations, WAUG 750 AM and WAUG-TV 8.

This historically Black university continues to operate at its original location in east Raleigh.

Source: N.53.16.2696-From the Albert Barden Collection, State Archives of NC