About: Kentucky State University

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Public, historically black, land grant university in Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

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  • universiteit in de Verenigde Staten (nl)
  • Universität in den Vereinigten Staaten (de)
  • Университет в городе Франкфорт, Кентукки, США (ru)
  • trường đại học người da đen truyền thống ở Frankfort, Kentucky, Hoa Kỳ (vi)
  • public, historically black, land grant university in Frankfort, Kentucky, United States (en)
  • universitato ĉe Frankfort, Kentukio, Usono (eo)
  • Université américaine située à Frankfort dans le Kentucky, (fr)
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  • "Onward, Upward."
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  • 2163 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
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  • Kelly Green and light Gold
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  • 1898 (xsd:integer)
  • 2020 (xsd:integer)
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  • Campus in 1898 (en)
  • Main entrance in 2020 (en)
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  • Kelly Green and light Gold (en)
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  • United States (en)
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  • vertical (en)
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  • Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons (en)
  • Kentucky State College (en)
  • Kentucky State College for Negroes (en)
  • State Normal School for Colored Persons (en)
  • Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons (en)
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  • KYState-Frankfort1898.jpg (en)
  • Kentucky State University 2020.jpg (en)
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  • Kentucky State University seal.svg (en)
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  • Kentuckystate univ textlogo.png (en)
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  • 200 (xsd:integer)
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  • "Onward, Upward." (en)
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  • 1930.0 (dbd:second)
  • The 28th and first female Prime Minister of Thailand (en)
  • Educator & poet; poet James Still called her "Kentucky's Emily Dickinson" (en)
  • Former head football coach at Jackson State University and Tennessee State University. One of the winningest coaches in HBCU football. Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. (en)
  • College basketball star on Kentucky State University's 1970, 1971 and 1972 NAIA National Championship teams. Played for the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Diego Conquistadors of the American Basketball Association (en)
  • Kentucky's first African American mayor in 1968 when he became mayor of Glasgow, Kentucky. (en)
  • Civil rights attorney and jurist who advocated for the desegregation of public education and public facilities in the Commonwealth of Kentucky (en)
  • Former college basketball standout; Drafted as the 19th player in the 1972 NBA Draft by the Cincinnati Royals (en)
  • Filipino Player of the Barangay Ginebra Kings in the Philippine Basketball Association, 2008–09 Philippine Basketball Association MVP (en)
  • NFL, AFL and CFL player. (en)
  • Member of Women's Army Corps during WWII; 1st African American officer of an otherwise all-white company (en)
  • civil service and employment opportunity reformer (en)
  • Photographer for Ebony, won a Pulitzer Prize for his picture of Coretta Scott King at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. (en)
  • A native of Anniston, AL graduated from Cobb Avenue High School in 1968. In his senior season, he helped the team go to a 9-0-1 championship season. He earned all-conference honors and a scholarship to Kentucky State. In his senior season, Kentucky State ended 8-3-0 and played in the Orange Blossom Classic Bowl game. He was a Pittsburgh Courier Honorable mention. He was inducted into both the Kentucky State Athletic Hall of Fame and Calhoun County Sports Hall of Fame. Drafted into the NFL in the seventh round, he helped the St. Louis Football Cardinals win two NFC East Championships . He retired after playing 6 seasons in the NFL with Houston, St. Louis and Tampa Bay. (en)
  • First African-American Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice (en)
  • Basketball player; the first from KSU to be drafted by the NBA in 1970 (en)
  • Former professional football player who played six seasons in the NFL and later starred in the CFL (en)
  • Former professional football player who played six seasons in the NFL (en)
  • Former head basketball coach at Texas Southern University and Alcorn State University. One of the winningest coaches in HBCU basketball. Inducted into National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (en)
  • First black man to play in the Canadian Football League; played for the Montreal Alouettes 1946–1957 and was a seven-time All-Star; played in 4 Grey Cup Championships, winning in 1949; was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1975. (en)
  • Former civil rights leader, educator and executive; former Executive Director who led the National Urban League through its most prosperous period; served many presidential commissions including as a Vietnam elections observer in 1967 (en)
  • Became the second President of Norfolk State College in 1975 (en)
  • NBA and college basketball player, who is listed among the top rebounders in college basketball history, starred on KSU's 1970 and 1971 national championship teams. Holds the NAIA records for Rebounds in a Season and Career Average , while ranking eighth on the NCAA All-Divisions Career list with 1719 total despite being the only player in the top 10 to play only three seasons. Earned NCAA Division II First Team All-American honors in 1971. A seven-foot center, Smith played in the NBA for eight seasons and was the third overall pick in the 1971 NBA draft for the Buffalo Braves; listed amongst all-time greatest shot-blockers in NBA history even though that statistic was only recorded for six of his seasons. (en)
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  • Michael D. Dailey (en)
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  • 2163 (xsd:integer)
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  • 180 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1938 (xsd:integer)
  • 1941 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1947 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1972 (xsd:integer)
  • 1991 (xsd:integer)
  • ca. 1900 (en)
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  • Kentucky State University (en)
  • Kentucky State University (de)
  • Université d'État du Kentucky (fr)
  • 켄터키 주립 대학교 (ko)
  • Государственный университет Кентукки (ru)
  • 肯塔基州立大学 (zh)
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  • Kentucky State University (en)
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