held at Storer in 1906. John Brown's Fort, a symbol of the end of slavery in the United States, was located from 1909 until 1968 on the Storer campus,...
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (section Storer College)
Trail, whose midpoint is nearby; the former campus of Storer College, a historically black college established during Reconstruction; and one of four national...
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John Brown (abolitionist) (section Storer College)
Storer participated in the dedication. In response, W. E. B. DuBois, co-founder of the NAACP, wrote text for a new plaque in 1932. The Storer College...
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Storer College was built in Harpers Ferry as one of the first integrated schools in the U.S. Frederick Douglass served as a trustee of the college, and...
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People. The subsequent Niagara Conference was held the following year at Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. "African American Registry: The Niagara...
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John Storer (January 18, 1796 – October 23, 1867) was a merchant and philanthropist from Sanford, Maine, who was the namesake of Storer College in Harpers...
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John Brown's Fort (category Storer College buildings)
Farm near Harpers Ferry, in 1909 to the campus of historically black Storer College in the upper town of Harpers Ferry, and in 1968 by the National Park...
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singing at a young age in her church choir. Batson sang professionally at Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia for two years before moving on at the...
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original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2017 – via Google Books. "Storer College - Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)"...
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Storer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Storer, a 17th-century American astronomer Bellamy Storer: Bellamy Storer (1796–1875)...
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Nnamdi Azikiwe (category Storer College alumni)
to the United States where he was called Ben Azikiwe, and attended Storer College, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Howard University...
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Lockwood House (Harpers Ferry) (category Storer College buildings)
main building for Storer School until 1867, when the school came to the attention of John Storer, a philanthropist from Maine. Storer offered a $10,000...
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The year 1865 also saw the foundation of Storer College (1865–1955) in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Storer's former campus and buildings have since been...
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killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. In 1918, the all-Black Storer College dedicated a plaque on its campus celebrating John Brown's raid. The...
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Washington Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (closed in 1965) Sumter High School, Sumter, South Carolina Suva Sangam College, Suva, Fiji Islands...
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Hamilton Hatter (category Storer College alumni)
(1856–1942) was an African-American professor at Storer College and the first president of Bluefield State College (originally Bluefield Colored Institute) in...
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Normal school (redirect from Teacher-training college)
arithmetic to. The school was part of Storer College, although in the 19th century it did not provide college-level instruction. The school closed in...
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John Dunjee (category Bates College alumni)
of Storer College and member of the Storer Singers in 1873). Due to the connection of Bates and the Freewill Baptists with founding Storer College in...
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Alderson Broaddus University (redirect from A-B College)
Storer College, a Black Baptist college founded in 1865 in Harpers Ferry, were transferred to Alderson-Broaddus in 1964 and used to fund the “Storer Scholarship”...
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at Edinburgh. In 1855, Storer began medical practice in Boston with an emphasis on obstetrics and gynecology. In 1865, Storer won an American Medical...
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Kathryn Peddrew (category Storer College alumni)
Storer College in her home state of West Virginia. She focused her studies on chemistry and graduated with a chemistry degree in 1943. After college,...
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Nathan Cook Brackett (category Storer College people)
Will Baptist pastor, first president of Storer College, and chairman and co-founder of Bluefield State College. Nathan Brackett was born in Phillips, Maine...
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Celeste Brackett Newcomer (category Storer College alumni)
first president of Storer College, a teacher training and vocational school serving Black students. She graduated from Hillandale College in Michigan, where...
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American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation, 1865–1955. Morgantown, West Virginia: Storer College Books, an imprint of West...
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Stella James Sims (category Storer College alumni)
(1875-1963) was an African-American science professor who held positions at Storer College, Virginia University of Lynchburg, and Bluefield Colored Institute....
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moved to the place it was the longest, and where it was most honored: Storer College, a school established for freedmen in Harpers Ferry, which also was...
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Niagara Movement (category Storer College)
gathering, from August 15 to 18, 1906, took place at the campus of Storer College (now part of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park). The Hill Top House...
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Bellamy Storer (March 26, 1796 – June 1, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, father of Bellamy Storer (1847). Born in Portland in Massachusetts'...
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Inez Mary Romanoff (née Bachelin, formerly Storer; born October 11, 1933), known as Inez Storer, is an American painter and mixed-media artist who creates...
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class and deep-sea diver. Storer registered for the draft on October 15, 1945 and re-enlisted in the Navy on March 30, 1948. Storer was supervising cleanup...
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