North Carolina Central University
North Carolina
1910
Formerly “National Religious Training School and Chautauqua”, “National Training School”, “Durham State Normal School”, “North Carolina College for Negroes”, and “North Carolina College at Durham”
When the North Carolina legislature appropriated funds to purchase the National Training School and create Durham State Normal School in 1925, maroon and gray were adopted as the new school’s colors.
At some point between 1925 and 1947, the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) assigned the North Carolina College for Negroes a maroon hood lining with a gray chevron. This description of the college’s hood first appears in a 1969 IBAC list and then in a 1972 IBAC list without change. Unfortunately this arrangement of the colors was a duplication of the hood lining already assigned to Concord College in West Virginia. To resolve this problem, North Carolina Central’s chevron has been inverted.