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Storer College was a historically Black college in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, that operated from 1867 to 1955. A national icon for Black Americans, in the town where the 'end of American slavery began', as Frederick Douglass famously put it, [2] it was a unique institution whose focus changed several times.
Oct 24, 2023 · Storer College created a safe place for education in a world where none had existed before. It was a place to learn to read and write, to teach others, and to develop marketable skills. By 1869 the college expanded across Camp Hill in Harpers Ferry and added three more government buildings.
Jan 11, 2023 · Storer College created a safe place for education in a world where none had existed before. It was a place to learn to read and write, to teach others, and to develop marketable skills. By 1869 the college expanded across Camp Hill in Harpers Ferry and added three more government buildings.
Dec 23, 2020 · The school was named Storer and opened in October, 1867 with 19 students. The West Virginia State Legislature then appropriated $10,000 for the purpose of educating blacks above the elementary level, ensuring that the institution would be dedicated to African American education.
Nov 13, 2017 · Storer College remained a local resource for African Americans throughout its years of operation, but it leapt onto the national stage in the early 1900s. In 1906, the Niagara Movement led by civil rights advocate W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963) held its second meeting and its first on United States soil on the Storer College campus.
Storer College sent 104 of her students and alumni off to war. In 1859, when the abolitionist John Brown came to Harpers Ferry, teaching an African American how to read and write was illegal. Eight years later, after a bloody 4-year Civil War, Storer College opened on Camp Hill to do just that.
Aug 3, 2023 · Storer College, a product of the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War, was established in 1867 in Harpers Ferry by the Freewill Baptist Church to educate freed slaves in the Shenandoah Valley.
