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Tennessee State University is a land-grant university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. TSU is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. The University is a member-school of Thurgood Marshall College Fund. TSU was originally organized as the Agricultural and... Industrial State Normal School in 1909 and began serving students on June 19, 1912. Its status was raised to a four-year teachers' college in 1922, and two years later it was renamed the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal College. After another five years, "Normal" was dropped from its name. It was elevated to university status in 1951, renamed the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial University, and got full-fledged land-grant university status by the Tennessee State Board of Education in 1958. In 1968, the state legislature dropped the words "Agricultural and Industrial" in favor of "Tennessee State University."Since 1972, it has been operated under the auspices of the Tennessee Board of Regents.
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Talbotton is a city in Talbot County, Georgia, United States. The population was 1,019 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Talbot County. Talbotton may be best known in history as the place where the immigrant Straus family got their start in retail sales in the 19th century. Decades... later, the family acquired R.H. Macy & Co. in New York and eventually turned it into the famous Macy's chain. Talbotton was also the birthplace of radical Christian scholar and farmer Clarence Jordan Talbotton is located at 32°40′41″N 84°32′23″W / 32.67806°N 84.53972°W / 32.67806; -84.53972 . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.1 square miles , of which, 3.1 square miles of it is land and 0.32% is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,019 people, 377 households, and 257 families residing in the city. The population density was 326.8 people per square mile . There were 420 housing units at an average density of 134.7 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 19.63% White, 77.82% African American, 0.79% Native American, 1.37% Asian, 0.10% from other races, and 0.
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