On February 18, 1867, just two years after the Civil War ended, Rev. William Jefferson White, a Baptist minister, founded the Augusta Theological Institute in the basement of Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia. The school’s mission was to educate young Black men for teaching and ministry.
The institution relocated multiple times before settling in Atlanta‘s West End in 1885, where it remains today as Morehouse College.
In 1913, the school was renamed in honor of Henry L. Morehouse, a key figure in the Northern Baptist Home Mission Society. Under its first African American president, Dr. John Hope, Morehouse expanded its academic programs and attracted top scholars to its faculty.
Today, Morehouse College stands as a beacon of excellence and leadership in Black higher education.
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