Livingstone College

Livingstone College along with Hood Theological Seminary began as Zion Wesley Institute in Concord, North Carolina in 1879. After fundraising by Joseph C. Price and J. W. Hood, the school was closed in Concord and reopened in 1882 a few miles north in Salisbury.{{cite web|title=About Livingstone|url=http://livingstone.edu/about-livingstone/|publisher=Livingstone College|access-date=February 12, 2013}}

Zion Wesley Institute was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church. The institute changed its name to Livingstone College in 1887 to honor African missionary David Livingstone. That same year, the school granted its first degree.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Franz|first=Alyssa|title=Livingstone College (1879-- )|url=http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/livingstone-college-1879|encyclopedia=Online Encyclopedia of Significant People and Places in African American History|date=11 March 2010 |publisher=BlackPast.org|access-date=May 4, 2012}} The first group of students to graduate included eight men and two women, the first black women to earn bachelor's degrees in North Carolina.{{cite book|last1=Gilmore|first1=Glenda Elizabeth|title=Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920|url=https://archive.org/details/genderjimcrowwom0000gilm|url-access=registration|date=1996|publisher=The University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill|isbn=978-0807845967|page=[https://archive.org/details/genderjimcrowwom0000gilm/page/40 40]}}

Originally beginning with 40 acres on a Salisbury farm called Delta Grove, Livingstone College's main campus now consists of 272 acres.{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Sarah|title=Livingstone College has history of producing leaders|url=http://www.salisburypost.com/article/20110307/SP0101/303079999/0/SEARCH&slId=5|access-date=February 12, 2013|newspaper=The Salisbury Post|date=February 14, 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411183532/http://www.salisburypost.com/article/20110307/SP0101/303079999/0/SEARCH&slId=5|archive-date=April 11, 2013|url-status=dead}}

In August 2014, Livingstone submitted plans for converting a former Holiday Inn on Jake Alexander Boulevard into a hospitality school.{{cite news|url=https://www.salisburypost.com/2014/08/20/city-approves-new-holiday-inn-livingstone-buying-old-hotel/|title=City approves new Holiday Inn, Livingstone buying old hotel|access-date=January 31, 2020|newspaper=The Salisbury Post|date=August 20, 2014}} Livingstone's School of Hospitality Management & Culinary Arts, a program accredited in 2012, had moved to the new location by 2015.{{cite news|url=https://www.salisburypost.com/2015/01/03/10-to-watch-vivian-ray/ |title=City approves new Holiday Inn, Livingstone buying old hotel|last=Groh|first=Jeanie|access-date=January 31, 2020|newspaper=The Salisbury Post|date=January 3, 2015}}{{cite news|url=https://www.salisburypost.com/2015/10/08/livingstone-hosts-fundraiser-for-heritage-hall-renovation/|title=Livingstone hosts fundraiser for Heritage Hall renovation|last=Willis|first=Laurie D.|access-date=January 31, 2020|newspaper=The Salisbury Post|date=October 8, 2015}}

The Livingstone College Historic District is a national historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object on the Livingstone College campus and adjacent residential sections in Salisbury. Notable buildings include the Price house (1884), Harris house (1889), Aggrey house (1912), Ballard Hall (1887), Dodge Hall (1886), Carnegie Library (1908), Goler Hall (1917), Hood Building (1910), and Price Memorial Building (1930-1943).{{Cite web | author =Dave Brown | title = Livingstone College Historic District| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date =June 1980| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/RW0013.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | access-date = 2015-02-01}}

On the campus is an athletic marker erected in 1956 to commemorate the first African-American intercollegiate football game, in 1892.

Livingstone is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Division II, and the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA). Its intercollegiate sports programs include basketball, bowling, cross-country, football, softball, volleyball, tennis, golf, and track and field. The nickname for the school's teams is the Blue Bears.

The Livingstone College football team has had a long history since playing in the first Black college football game in 1892 against Johnson C. Smith University (then called Biddle University).{{cite news|last=Greenlee|first=Craig T.|title=Small schools - Where Football Is An Activity, Not a Business|url=http://diverseeducation.com/article/7547/|access-date=May 4, 2012|newspaper=Diverse Issues in Higher Education|date=June 17, 2007}} The rivalry between the two schools continues to this day as the Commemorative Classic. The Blue Bears also maintain a rivalry with their cross town rival Catawba College Indians. The early October game between the two schools is called the Mayors' Cup.

The current football stadium that the university uses for matches is the Alumni Memorial Stadium (Livingstone)

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{{Alum|name=Daniel S. Bentley|year=|nota=minister, writer, and African American newspaper proprietor| ref={{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Gerald L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0AoCgAAQBAJ |title=The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia |last2=McDaniel |first2=Karen Cotton |last3=Hardin |first3=John A. |date=2015-08-28 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-6066-5 |pages=41 |language=en}} }}

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{{Alum|name=Philip A. Payton, Jr.|year=|nota=known as the "Father of Harlem"|ref={{Citation needed|date=October 2013}}}}

{{Alum|name=Wilmont Perry|year=1997|nota=former NFL running back for the New Orleans Saints|ref={{Citation needed|date=October 2013}}}}

{{Alum|name=John Terry|year=1991|nota=former CFL All-Star for the Saskatchewan Roughriders|ref={{Citation needed|date=October 2013}}}}

{{Alum|name=William J. Trent|year=1930|nota=Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund|ref=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/29/obituaries/william-trent-83-director-of-negro-college-fund.html}}

{{Alum|name=Norman Yokely|year=|nota=former baseball pitcher in negro league baseball. He played from 1926 to 1946 with several teams|ref={{Citation needed|date=October 2013}}}}

{{Alum|name=Ruth Whitehead Whaley|year=1919|nota=First Black woman admitted to the bar in New York and North Carolina.|ref={{Cite book|title=Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers|last=Smith, Jr.|first=J. Clay|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=1998|isbn=0472108832|location=USA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/rebelsinlawvoice0000unse/page/18 18]|chapter=Legal Profession Followed by Nation's Best Known Socialites by Edith Spurlock Sampson, 1935|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/rebelsinlawvoice0000unse/page/18}}}}

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{{Faculty|name=George James|dept=Professor|nota=was a South American historian and author, best known for his 1954 book Stolen Legacy, in which he argued that Greek philosophy originated in ancient Egypt.|ref=}}

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{{Faculty|name=Carolyn R. Payton|dept=Professor|nota= Director of the Peace Corps during the Carter Administration |ref={{Citation needed|date=November 2013}}}}

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