FAMU: "15 students and two instructors" (Tallahassee, Oct. 3, 1887)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1887 · Places: Florida, Africa
SUMMARYFAMU: "15 students and two instructors" (Tallahassee, Oct. 3, 1887) [Connections: Tallahassee & Orlando, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORD"FAMU was founded on October 3, 1887." "It began classes with 15 students and two (2) instructors." Thomas DeSaille Tucker, a Pensacola attorney, was first president (1887–1901); former state representative Thomas Van Renssaler Gibbs, who helped pass House Bill 133 (1884), was the second faculty member. In 1891 the college received $7,500 under the Second Morrill Act and became Florida's land-grant institution for African Americans
PATTERNThe state's Black university was planted in the same Leon County that had been a 73%-enslaved plantation county a generation earlier
LENS (WW9)On the Apalachee old fields, the descendants built their own school
OPENFAMU's page and Wikipedia credit the 1884–85 bill differently (T. V. Gibbs vs. Jonathan C. Gibbs); check the 1885 Florida House Journal
SOURCEFAMU History (Florida A&M University); Florida A&M University (Wikipedia).