ON this date in 1938, Morgan State College was established. Morgan State University is a historically black college in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Morgan is Maryland’s designated public urban university and the largest Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in Maryland. In 1890 the university, known as the Centenary Biblical Institute, changed its name to Morgan State College to honor Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its Board of Trustees who had donated land to the college. In 1975, Morgan State became a university.