Английская Википедия:Haygood Seminary
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Haygood Seminary, also known as Haygood Academy, was a seminary near Washington, Arkansas, United States. It was established by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (CME Church, now Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) to train African Americans in Arkansas for a career in the clergy. It was one of the first such institutions established by the CME Church. In 1927, the school relocated to Jefferson County, Arkansas, where it operated as Arkansas-Haygood Industrial College before closing during World War II.
History
The school was organized in March 1883 by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (CME Church) congregation in Washington, Arkansas.Шаблон:Refn This congregation had been formed in 1867, three years before the formation of the national CME Church in 1870.Шаблон:Sfn The idea for the school was pushed for by John Williamson, a former slave whose owner, Samuel Williamson, was a Presbyterian preacher.Шаблон:Sfn Williamson pushed for the congregation to support a new educational institution and named the school the Haygood Institute, after Atticus Greene Haygood, a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, president of Emory College in Atlanta, and a supporter of education for African Americans.Шаблон:Sfn The seminary was under the direction of the CME Church's Little Rock Conference.Шаблон:Sfn
The school was established roughly Шаблон:Convert southwest of Washington, in a two-story wooden building on a Шаблон:Convert campus.Шаблон:Sfn Henry Bullock served as the president of the school's board of trustees and was a large supporter of the school.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Though the early 1890s, the school expanded to include an elementary department and had had several principals through that time, including Josie Beebe, Ida M. Lane, and H. R. Pickney.Шаблон:Sfn In early 1894, the school had its first recorded graduating class, consisting of Frank Carter, Oliver Mitchell, and Bradley R. Williamson.Шаблон:Sfn Also by this time, the school had established itself as one of the premier educational institutes for African Americans in the area between Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Texas College in Tyler, Texas.Шаблон:Sfn Haygood Seminary's property at the time was valued at $5,000.Шаблон:Sfn
In late 1894, the Reverend George L. Tyus, a graduate from Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, and the first African American man in southwest Arkansas to hold an earned academic degree, became the president of the seminary.Шаблон:Sfn His time in this position included significant growth for the institution, including the acquisition of a Шаблон:Convert farm that students could work on to gain experience and to pay for their education.Шаблон:Sfn There was also an increase in other vocational educational opportunities for students.Шаблон:Sfn Several new buildings were constructed for the school, including a blacksmith's shop, and classes were offered to teach brick masonry, carpentry, millinery, and sewing.Шаблон:Sfn Additionally, a twelve-room, two-story girls' dormitory was built and named Tyus Hall, in honor of the president.Шаблон:Sfn In 1908, the school had 166 students and five teachers, with annual expenses of roughly $5,000.Шаблон:Sfn Tyus left Haygood Seminary in 1910 to become the president of Texas College.Шаблон:Sfn
On February 8, 1915, a fire destroyed several buildings on the campus.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Around the same time, the CME Church felt that a better location was needed for a church-supported educational institute in the area.Шаблон:Sfn In 1915, they founded the Arkansas-Haygood Industrial College on Шаблон:Convert of land roughly Шаблон:Convert south of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, with the college's first classes beginning in 1922.Шаблон:Sfn However, the seminary near Washington continued to operate, with a new building constructed at the school in 1921 named Williamson's Hall.Шаблон:Sfn By 1927, the seminary had completely relocated to the Pine Bluff location, with the remaining buildings at the old location being sold to the Washington Public School District.Шаблон:Sfn From 1919 to 1928, Dominion Robert Glass served as the president of Arkansas–Haygood Industrial College.[1]
The school district operated Lincoln High School, the county's public high school for African Americans, at the site.Шаблон:Sfn The last original building from Haygood Seminary, Williamson's Hall, was demolished in 1955.Шаблон:Sfn Meanwhile, Arkansas-Haygood Industrial College continued to operate until it closed during World War II.Шаблон:Sfn
Notable alumni
- Oliver Mitchell, the first pastor of Bullock Temple CME Church in Little Rock, Arkansas.Шаблон:Sfn
- Randall L. Tyus, a field director for the United Negro College Fund and a member of the Small Business Administration during the presidency of John F. Kennedy.Шаблон:Sfn
- M. M. Wilburn, a professor at Philander Smith College.Шаблон:Sfn
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