{"title":"MOREHOUSE COLLEGE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMorehouse College is one of ten historically \u003c\/span\u003eBlack colleges and universities in Georgia\u003cspan\u003e. Located a few miles from downtown Atlanta in the historic West End district, Morehouse is one of only five all-male colleges in the United States and the only one for African Americans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA private,\u003cspan\u003e historically-black\u003c\/span\u003e college for men, Morehouse College opened in 1867 to train former slaves\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto be Protestant ministers and educators. Today, Morehouse is one of five colleges in the Atlanta University Center, a complex that has included Morehouse’s sister school,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e, as well as Spelman College Clark Atlanta University\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e, Morris Brown College\u003c\/span\u003e, and the\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e Interdonimational Theology Center\u003c\/span\u003e. The affiliated\u003cspan\u003e Morehouse College \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eopened in 1975.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough currently located in\u003cspan\u003e Georgia's\u003c\/span\u003e capital city, Morehouse originated as the Augusta Institute in Augusta, Georgia, just two years after the\u003cspan\u003e Civil War.\u003c\/span\u003e  The Augusta Institute relocated to Atlanta in 1879 and became known as Atlanta Baptist Seminary.  Students initially attended classes in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church.  When John D. Rockefeller donated land near Spelman for the men’s college in the 1880s, the school moved to its present location in southwest Atlanta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1913, while under the leadership of the college’s first African American president,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e, John Hope the school’s name changed to Morehouse College. The new designation honored Dr. Henry Lyman Morehouse, the white, northern-born minister and prominent member of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e New York \u003c\/span\u003ewho donated funds to the college.  Since the school opened its door during the\u003cspan\u003e Reconstruction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eera, Morehouse has continued to benefit from the donations of philanthropists and alumni.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0247\/0274\/6721\/collections\/Photoroom_20240311_123803.png?v=1710175116","url":"https:\/\/www.kingsviewsingles.com\/collections\/morehouse-college.oembed","provider":"kingsviewsingles LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}