What was the first state-supported school for the training of African-American Teachers?

The institution that is now Alabama State University in Montgomery began in 1867 as Lincoln Normal School, a private school for African-American students in Marion, Alabama. In 1899 a new building was constructed. Its cost was covered by a group of black citizens, by the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency formed by Congress in 1865 to provide aid to African-Americans and impoverished whites), and by the American Missionary Association, whose teachers ran the school. In 1874 Lincoln Normal School was recognized as a state-supported institution for the education of African-American teachers.
The school was moved to Montgomery in 1887, its name was changed to Alabama Colored People's University, and the campus was expanded as a new buildings were constructed over the years. As the school grew to a four-year college and then added a graduate school, its name was changed several times. In 1969 it received university status, and Alabama State University grew to include colleges of arts and sciences, business administration, education, music, and aerospace studies.