North Carolina Central University
North Carolina Central University (NCCU or NC Central), a state-supported liberal arts public historically black university in Durham, North Carolina.
It was founded by Dr. James E. Shepard with the Chautauqua movement in 1909. It was made part of the state system in 1923, when it first received state funding and was renamed as Durham State Normal School.
It added graduate classes in arts and sciences and professional schools in law and library science in the late 1930s and 1940s.
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Statue of NCCU founder James E. Shepard. James E. Shepard was also a pharmacist, civil servant and educator. He served as the first president of NCCU for nearly 40 years.
James E. Shepard, c. 1947, founder of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race
North Carolina Central University entrance seen from S. Alston Avenue
View of the NCCU campus seen from the James E. Shepard Administration Building
An exterior photograph of the NCCU Student Center.
NCCU's O'Kelly-Riddick Stadium home to the MEAC Division I FCS Eagles
A view of the NCCU track, soccer field along with Richmond Residence Hall and the LeRoy T. Walker Physical Education Complex (far right)
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