President Floyd Brown, students and friends at the first school building of Fargo Agricultural School, 1919 [graphic]. 1919.

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Arkansas History Commission. President Floyd Brown, students and friends at the first school building of Fargo Agricultural School, 1919 [graphic].

President Floyd Brown, students and friends at the first school building of Fargo Agricultural School, 1919 [graphic]. 1919.

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Negative taken of President Floyd Brown, students and friends at the first school building of Fargo Agricultural School, 1919. Floyd Brown, born April 27, 1891 at Stampley, Jefferson County, Mississippi, was the second child born to Charles (b. June, 1860) and Janie (Jane) Brown (b. May, 1865 in Mississippi). As tenant farmers, Charles and Janie had ten children including Willie? (b. Feb. 1888), Floyd, May E. (b. June, 1891), Charles, Jr. (b. Sept, 1892), Maria (b. June, 1895) and Sue (b. June, 1899). He attended Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama and Tennessee State College. In 1915, he came to Arkansas selling books to raise funds to finish school. Floyd B. Brown married Lillian Nora Epps. Together they founded the Fargo Agricultural School at Fargo, Monroe County, Arkansas in 1919, which operated until 1949. The school was a African American owned and operated boarding school for African American boys and girls with a flexible curriculum. As a private school, the Fargo Agricultural School was supported by contributions and the sales of its products. Floyd Brown died September 11, 1961 in the Baptist Hospital in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas while a resident of Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas.

1 copy negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

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