Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.)
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National Theological Institute with branches in Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va., founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, split apart after 1865 with the Washington branch becoming Wayland Seminary; 1869 the Richmond branch was named Colver Institute; in 1876 school was incorporated by the Virginia General Assembly under the name Richmond Institute; in 1883 a college for women named Hartshorn Memorial College was founded by the ABHMS; with no women attending the Richmond Institute it turned strictly to theological studies and re-established itself as Richmond Theological Seminary in 1886; by 1889 it was agreed that Wayland Seminary and Richmond Theological Seminary would come together to form Virginia Union University; in 1932 the merger of Hartshorn Memorial College made it the third school in the union; in 1964 Storer College of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., founded in 1867 by Free Will Baptists, merged it assets with Virginia Union to become the fourth component of the union.
Chartered in 1909 and opened doors in 1910 as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua; sold and reorganized in 1915 as National Training School; 1923 state of North Carolina appropriated funds to purchase school which became Durham State Normal School, a publically supported state institution; two years later the North Carolina General Assembly redefined the mission of the school and renamed it North Carolina College for Negroes; renamed North Carolina College at Durham in 1947; changed to North Carolina Central University in 1969.
Founded by the Free-will Baptists to educate freed slaves in the Shenandoah Valley, Storer College opened on Oct. 2, 1867 as Storer Normal School with 19 students, one teacher, and the Reverend Dr. Nathan Cook Brackett as principal; named for philanthropist John Storer of Sanford, Me. who donated $10,000 for the establishment of a school open to all in the South; accredited as a four-year college in 1946, the first college for Blacks in West Virginia ceased operations in 1955 and merged with Virginia Union University in 1964.
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