The educational institution we know as Bowie State University is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. The university opened its doors as a one-room school house in Baltimore while the Civil War was still being fought, in January 1865. Over 15 decades it has evolved into a university of close to 6,000 students. In a few minutes we’ll learn some of its early history – and why it moved from Baltimore to Bowie from archivist Katy Hayes. But first, we hear from Beatrice Payne, a woman who lived part of Bowie State’s history. She graduated from Bowie in 1928. We spoke with her in February.
This segment originally aired on February 23, 2015.
