West Virginia State Yellow Jackets
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West Virginia State University is a small historically black (though now mostly white) public college in Institute, West Virginia, an unincorporated suburb of Charleston, West Virginia. In the Charleston area, the school is usually referred to simply as "State".
The school was established as the West Virginia Colored Institute in 1891 under the second Morrill Act which provided for land-grant institutions for black students in the 17 states that had segregated schools.
State's athletic teams, known as the Yellow Jackets, compete in NCAA Division II as a member of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
