Talladega College
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Talladega, AL — Private HBCU, est. 1867; home of the Tornadoes; the oldest private liberal arts HBCU in Alabama; founded at the end of the Civil War by two formerly enslaved men, William Savery and Thomas Tarrant, who converted a shoe shop into a school with 140 students; home of the famous Amistad Murals by artist Hale Woodruff (1939) — a dramatic visual narrative of the 1839 slave ship revolt; strong liberal arts, business, and education programs in one of Alabama's most historically significant small colleges
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