Records 1869-1971 1880-1929.

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Records 1869-1971 1880-1929.

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School catalogs, yearbooks, promotional literature, scrapbooks, photos and other records, of a black college; together with minutes and other publications of its sponsoring agency, General Association of Kentucky Baptists (formerly General Association of Colored Baptists in Kentucky). Includes material on Central Law School and Louisville National Medical College, affiliates of the college, and on history of the General Association and black Baptists in Kentucky, black elementary, secondary, higher, and professional education in Kentucky, blacks in Louisville, Kentucky's Day Law (1904), and Louisville Municipal College. Persons represented include William J. Simmons (1849 - 1890), and Charles Henry Parrish, Sr., president, 1918-1931.

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University of Louisville, Ekstrom Library

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University of Louisville, Ekstrom Library

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Simmons, William J., 1849-1890

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Steward, William, 1847-1935.

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Parrish, C. H. 1859-1931.

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Simmons Bible College.

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Simmons Bible College originated in 1873, when the General Association of Colored Baptists in Kentucky opened the Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute in Louisville. In 1884 the name changed to State University. In 1919 the name changed again, this time to Simmons University. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Simmons offered a variety of manual and academic programs. In 1930 it was reorganized as Simmons Bible College limiting its curriculum to religious training. ...