Grambling State University

CTL-E-6007 · School · university · 1901–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07237 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6007.

Grambling State University is a public, historically Black university in Grambling, Louisiana, and a member of the University of Louisiana System. It opened on November 1, 1901, as the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, founded by the North Louisiana Colored Agricultural Relief Association, a group of Black farmers organized in 1896 who wanted a school for African Americans in the northern part of the state, where almost none existed. At the association's request, Booker T. Washington sent Tuskegee graduate Charles P. Adams, who became the school's founding president and served thirty-five years. The school moved to its present site in 1905, became a state junior college in 1928 as the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute, awarded its first baccalaureate degree in 1944, and became Grambling College in 1946. Graduate programs brought university status and the present name in 1974. Grambling's Tigers compete in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, and its football program under coach Eddie G. Robinson, who led the team from 1941 to 1997, made the university nationally known; the campus is listed on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

The record

• Also known as: Grambling State, GSU, Grambling College, Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 10; third Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Grambling State University entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6007 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 2 packet ordered reserve, position 2 of 25 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #902). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — north Louisiana's founding HBCU, built by a Black farmers' association; core Black-education scope, paired in this batch with Southern University (CTL-E-6006). Vital status: n/a (School; operating institution). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Opened November 1, 1901 (gram.edu). Eddie Robinson's career record at Grambling: 408 wins, 165 losses, 15 ties, retiring after 1997 (Smithsonian NMAAHC). CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: the university's own history page dates its first SACS accreditation to 1949, while the university's own fact-book highlights timeline consulted in this pass gives initial SACS accreditation in 1953 and full membership in 1958 — both datings are the institution's, and neither is silently preferred here. MEDIA: photo HELD (Grambling State University campus entrance sign or Long-Jones Hall photograph named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6007-grambling-state-university.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Relationships

• Buck Buchanan — has alumnus
  Buck Buchanan played tackle on offense and defense at Grambling State University (1959–1962) under Eddie Robinson and was named NAIA and Black College All-America in 1962 before being selected first overall in the 1963 AFL draft (College Football Hall of Fame; Southwestern Athletic Conference).
• Doug Williams — has alumnus
  Doug Williams (CTL-E-5870) is a Grambling State alumnus who played under Eddie Robinson, listed among the university's famous alumni in the sports-press profile consulted.
• Ernie Ladd — has alumnus
  Ernie Ladd played defensive line at Grambling State University before his 1961 AFL draft selection; Grambling State's own news service records his Black College Football Hall of Fame induction as a GSU alumnus.
• Ronnie Coleman — has alumnus
  Ronnie Coleman graduated cum laude from Grambling State University with a BSc in accounting and played football there as a middle linebacker under coach Eddie Robinson.
• Willie Davis — has alumnus
  Green Bay Packers history lists Willie Davis's college as Grambling (1952-55); Encyclopedia of Arkansas records he was recruited by Eddie Robinson to Grambling and graduated there in 1956.

Referenced by

• Eddie Robinson — affiliated with → this record

Sources

• Grambling State University (gram.edu), "About Us — History" (accessed 2026-10-16) — opened November 1, 1901 as the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School; founded by the North Louisiana Colored Agricultural Relief Association (organized 1896); Charles P. Adams sent by Booker T. Washington and founding president; 1905 move, 1928 junior-college status, 1944 first baccalaureate, 1946 Grambling College, 1974 university status — https://www.gram.edu/aboutus/history/ (primary source · build store)
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, object record for the 1997 Grambling commemorative football program (accessed 2026-10-16) — Grambling State University, founded 1901; Eddie Robinson retired after the 1997 season with 408 wins, 165 losses and 15 ties over fifty-six years — https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2017.4?destination=/explore/collection/search%3Fedan_q%3D%252A%253A%252A%26edan_fq%255B0%255D%3Dtopic%253A%2522HBCUs%2520%2528Historically%2520Black%2520Colleges%2520and%2520Universities%2529%2522%26edan_fq%255B1%255D%3D-name%253A%2522National%2520Bankers%2520Association%2522%26edan_fq%255B2%255D%3D-topic%253A%2522Spirituals%2520%2528Music%2529%2522%26edan_fq%255B3%255D%3D-topic%253A%2522Jazz%2520%2528Music%2529%2522%26edan_fq%255B4%255D%3Dtopic%253A%2522Sports%2522%26edan_fq%255B5%255D%3D-place%253A%2522Tennessee%2522%26edan_fq%255B6%255D%3D-name%253A%2522Alpha%2520Kappa%2520Alpha%2520Sorority%252C%2520Incorporated%2522 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Grambling State University" (accessed 2026-10-16) — public HBCU in Grambling, Louisiana; University of Louisiana System and Thurgood Marshall College Fund membership; Tigers and SWAC membership; Louisiana African American Heritage Trail listing — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grambling_University (build store)

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