Arkansas's Southland College Featured: Offset Higher Teaching Establishment For Blacks Due West Of Mississippi River
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
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The Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette published an interesting article on Southland College, "Little left of schoolhouse inwards Delta," alongside reporting past times Bill Bowdin. Southland was supported past times Quakers together with opened inwards 1925 every bit Helena Orphan Asylum. Initially schooling was provided for the children together with a normal programme was added to gear upwardly teachers afterward 1869. The Southland College cite was adopted afterward 1873 together with the establishment was the kickoff higher didactics for blacks W of the Mississippi River. Southland College ultimately unopen inwards 1925.
Bowdin notes that the University of Arkansas archives offering an extensive digital exhibit, "Lives Transformed: the People of Southland College," featuring photographs together with first-person accounts documenting the deport on of the institution.
H5N1 History of Southland College published inwards 1906 past times the Indiana Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends is available at the Internet Archive. The booklet includes a issue of historic images of buildings together with people associated alongside the institution.