FAMU recently installed a historic marker at the Lucy Moten Building on the site of the former FAMU Developmental Research School. The building was built in 1932 and severed as an educational training center until 2008 when FAMU DRS was relocated to a new campus.
The building is one the oldest buildings on campus that is still in use. Today, it houses the admissions and recruitment office.
In 1935, then Florida A&M College President J.R.E. Lee, Sr. named the school in honor of Lucy Ellen Moten, an 1870 Howard University graduate who was a leader in the normal school education movement, which focused on teacher training, during the early 20th century. She was a protégé of Frederick Douglass.
Former students and faculty of the old FAMU DRS were on hand for the maker unveiling.