The museum will employ teams of student researchers from Black college journalism departments. There are 103 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)*, including 4- and 2-year public and private institutions, and most have or have had football programs. It is our goal to develop each participating school into a research franchise for gaining access to and knowledge of former players, coaches, artifacts, statistics and any other pertinent information.
The schools will be categorized into three regions, with several “regional assistants” responsible for culling information and locating artifacts and interviewees. Each region will also have a “regional manager,” responsible for the overall flow of information from his/her region as well as serving as the primary contact for information from that region and its assistants.Here is the regional breakdown:
Region I – Covering HBCUs in the Gulf Coast states and the Southwest.
- Alabama: Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Miles College, Talledega, Tuskegee
- Arkansas: Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Philander Smith
- Florida: Bethune-Cookman, Ed Waters, Florida A&M
- Louisiana: Dillard, Grambling, Southern, Xavier
- Mississippi: Alcorn State, Jackson State, Mississippi Valley, Lane, Rust, Tougaloo
- Missouri: Lincoln
- Oklahoma: Langston
- Texas: Huston-Tillotson, Jarvis Christian, Paul Quinn, Prairie View, Texas Southern, Wiley
Regional Manager: To be named.Regional Assistants: To be named.
Region II – Covering HBCUs in the Southeast states
- Georgia: Albany State, Clark Atlanta, Fort Valley State, Morehouse, Morris Brown, Savannah State
- Kentucky: Kentucky State
- North Carolina: Elizabeth City State, Fayetteville State, Johnson C. Smith, Livingstone, North Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central, St. Augustine’s, Shaw, Winston-Salem State
- South Carolina: Allen University, Benedict College, Claflin, South Carolina State
- Tennessee: Fisk, Knoxville College, Lemoyne-Owen, Tennessee State
- West Virginia: Bluefield State, West Virginia State, Storer College
Regional Manager: To be named.
Regional Assistants: To be named.
Region III – Covering HBCUs in the Northeast states
- District of Columbia: Howard
- Maryland: Bowie State, Maryland-Eastern Shore, Morgan State
- Ohio: Central State, Wilberforce
- Pennsylvania: Cheney State, Lincoln
- Virginia: Hampton, Norfolk State, St. Paul’s, Virginia State, Virginia Union, Delaware: Delaware State
Regional Manager: To be named.
Regional Assistants: To be named.
* The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, defines an HBCU as: "...any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Secretary [of Education] to be a reliable authority as to the quality of training offered or is, according to such an agency or association, making reasonable progress toward accreditation."
