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English: Storer College was a historically black college in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, that was founded by northern Free Will Baptists and operated from 1867 to 1955. A national icon for Black Americans, it was a unique institution whose focus changed several times. There is no one category of college into which it fits neatly. Sometimes white students studied alongside Black students, which at the time was prohibited by law at state-supported schools in West Virginia and the other Southern states, and sometimes in the North as well. In the twentieth century, Storer was at the center of the growing protest movement against Jim Crow treatment that would lead to the NAACP and the Civil Rights Movement. The first American meeting of the predecessor of the NAACP, the Niagara Movement, was held at Storer in 1906. From 1909 until 1968, John Brown's Fort, a potent symbol of the end of slavery in the United States, was located on the Storer campus, where it was used as the college museum.
Some of the campus's buildings were originally constructed for the use of the Harpers Ferry Armory as housing and were transferred to the college in 1868-69 by President Andrew Johnson. In 1959, the campus was purchased by the National Park Service for use as their Harpers Ferry Center, and are now part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
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This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Media in category "Storer College"
The following 17 files are in this category, out of 17 total.
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President McDonald and the Chapel, Storer College.jpg 1,810 × 848; 333 KB
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Reconstructed classroom, Storer College.jpg 2,048 × 1,536; 1.48 MB
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Storer College Diploma.jpg 1,768 × 1,334; 928 KB
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Storer College Students with School Banner, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.tif 2,011 × 1,363; 7.87 MB
Categories:
- African American history of West Virginia
- Defunct universities and colleges in the United States
- Educational institutions in the United States established in 1865
- 1955 disestablishments in the United States
- Historic district contributing properties in West Virginia
- Historically black colleges and universities
- Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
- Niagara Movement
- Harpers Ferry Armory
- Former Baptist schools in the United States
- Free Will Baptist Church
- An Era of Progress and Promise, 1863–1910