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MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GA. FOUNDED 1885
Founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Cburcb of Georgia. Occupies five acres of land and bas two buildings and pigbt de!l....tments. Nine bundred and ninety-three
students. ,8 teacbers, and ,8 theological students were enrolled in 1908. Tbe largest scbool of the denomination. Value of property, $100,000. Approximate annual
expenses, $30,000. secured from the African Methodist Episcopal Cburch in Georgia. Rev. Dr. J. S. F. Flipper, president '904-'908, was elected bisbop in 1908. Rev.
E. W. Lee, D.O., president.
E. W. I.ee
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Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. E.. W. Lee, A.M., D.D., President
"A COLLEGE thl'>ugh tIl(' aid of a oap factol'Y" is the way
th friends of )}ol't'is Brown ('ollege, Atlanta, Ga.. peak of
the bcginnin~ Hnd ('arl~: yeaI'!, of the work of this in titution.
TIll' eollel;e is now under th control
of the _,\frieun )1et hodist Episcopal
Church. and eonlrol!ed lw a board of
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trustees deetecl almost entin,l' from
IlwllIhcrs of I his denomination. It has
its ori~in in reC'Ognition of the need of
surll an institution 1'01' colored ,youth.
To Re\·. "·cslc.\· ,1. (;a.itl('s. now Bishop
(; aim·s. is due the honor of the beginnin/!
and tIl(' arl~' development of the
institution.
In 1R81. after the site for this school
had hcen plll'chased. Rev. MI'. (;aines
('ontntded with the Arm.·trong oap
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Company for the chool to receive a percentage of all soap
old during a certain period. It has been said for several years
nearly all of the women of the A. M. E. Church used no other
oap than Armstrong's in their laundry. It was from the
perc ntage, in part, that the first wooden building of the school
was erected in 1885.
The chool opened October 15, 1885, with 107 student. At
the time there were already two well-equipped colleges in Atlanta
for the ducation of the colored youth - Atlanta University,
un denominational, and Clark University, one of the schools
of the 1'rcedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal
hurch. Thc mini tel'S and laymen of the A. M. E. Church,
however. desired a . chool of their own denomination. and
were willinO' to make any aerifice for its establishment. Scores
of ministet·s gave $25 a year for its maintenance in this early
period.
Monis Brown College has been from the first a purely Negro
in titution. The promoters were cognizant from the start that
they could depend upon no ource for money but themselves
and a few thousand of poor freedmen. "Vith a confidence in
