· The distinguished offspring of two American giants, Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver.
· The only college or university campus in the nation to be designated a National Historic Site by the U.S. Congress.
· The only historically black college or university in the nation designated as the location for National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care
· The first nursing baccalaureate program in Alabama and one of the oldest in the United States.
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