Letter, 1980 Nov. 21 (Silver Springs, Md.), to Dr. Thomas L. Johnson (Columbia, S.C.).

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Stewart, Fannie Amos. Letter, 1980 Nov. 21 (Silver Springs, Md.), to Dr. Thomas L. Johnson (Columbia, S.C.).

Letter, 1980 Nov. 21 (Silver Springs, Md.), to Dr. Thomas L. Johnson (Columbia, S.C.).

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Historical sketch re her parents, Dr. Thomas Amos and Ida Amos, founders of Harbison College, a co-educational institution for African Americans in Abbeville, S.C., established, 1892, by the Presbyterian Board of Education. Originally named Ferguson Academy, Ms. Amos reports that the later name honored Samuel Harbison who donated land to the school. Amos reports that in 1906, "Dr. Niffer, the school doctor and white physician who lived in Abbeville, told Dr. Amos the Klu Klus Klan members were planning to lynch him that night. So he took Dr. Amos, Mrs. Amos, their eight children and one of the teachers in a wagon to Greenville and saw them safely on the train for Philadelphia, Pa. Apparently a rumor arose that the crates in which radiators were delivered to the school contained "machine guns." Arsonists set fire to the school in 1910, killing 3 students; the school then relocated to Irmo, S.C., and became a male-only agricultural college. In 1933 during the Depression, the took the name Harbison Junior College and again accepted female students, and eventually closed in 1958.

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