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Southern University was the first state institution of learning for Blacks, founded in New Orleans in 1880 as a state declared college. It became a land grant college in 1890 and moved to Baton Rouge in 1914. Its founder and first president was Dr. J. S. Clark, a native of Louisiana.
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