Voorhees Industrial School
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Denmark Industrial School, a school for blacks, founded 1897 by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, a Tuskegee Institute graduate, with one teacher, Jessie Dorsey, and fourteen students in a rent free, old store in Denmark, S.C.; M. Ralph Voorhees, a white philanthropist from Clinton, N.J., donated $4500 to buy a plot of land and $500 to erect the first building; in 1902 the school was renamed Voorhees Industrial School in his honor; school became affiliated with the Episcopal Church in 1924; became junior college in 1929 and was called Voorhees Normal and Industrial School; in 1947 name changed to Voorhees School and Junior College; in 1962 became Voorhees College; first baccalaureate degrees awarded 1968.
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