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Morris Brown College yearbooks

Yearbooks from 1923 to 2002 of historically black, Atlanta-based, liberal arts college, Morris Brown College.

More About This Collection

Date of Original
1923/2002

Subject
African American universities and colleges--Georgia--Atlanta
Morris Brown College--History
Theological seminaries--Georgia--Atlanta
College yearbooks--Georgia--Atlanta
College students--Georgia--Atlanta--Social life and customs--20th century

Location
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798

Medium
yearbooks

Type
Text

Description
Morris Brown College, a private, liberal arts institution located in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 1881 by the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church for the "moral, spiritual and intellectual growth of Negro boys and girls." The original site for the school was located at Boulevard and Houston Street in Northeast Atlanta. On October 5, 1885, under the charter granted by the State of Georgia, Morris Brown College opened with nine teachers and 107 students. To prepare students for ministerial careers in the A.M.E. Church, Morris Brown opened a theology department in 1894, which became the Turner Theological Seminary in 1900. The seminary's name honors Henry McNeal Turner, a pioneering A.M.E Church organizer. Turner Seminary remained affiliated with Morris Brown until 1957, when it joined the Interdenominational Theological Center. The school operated until 1894 on the primary, secondary, and normal school levels, while the College department was established in 1894 and graduated its first class in 1898. By 1908 the school boasted an enrollment of nearly 1,000 students. It continued to offer instruction in industrial trades as well as academic fields and awarded two-year degrees in addition to four-year bachelor's degrees, but over time administrators placed greater emphasis on the development of the school's college-level curriculum. Morris Brown joined the Atlanta University Center in 1941, and along with Atlanta University, Clark College, Spelman College, and Morehouse College formed the largest consortium of HBCUs in the country. They remained members of the AUC until 2002. The yearbooks of Morris Brown College chronicles the annual activities of the institution.

Metadata URL
https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/auc.007.yearbooks%3A9999

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

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