Bennett College was founded in 1873 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bennett College had its beginning in the unplastered basement of the Warnersville Methodist Episcopal Church (now known as St. Matthew’s Methodist Church). Seventy young men and women started elementary and secondary level studies. In 1926, The Women’s Home Missionary Society joined with the Board of Education of the church to make Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., formerly co-educational, a college for women. Notable Alumni: Dr. Dorothy Brown, Dr. Valerie Callendar Fayetteville State University was founded in 1867 in Fayetteville , North Carolina. In 1867, seven Black men: Matthew N. Leary, Andrew J. Chesnutt, Robert Simmons, George Grainger, Thomas Lomax, Nelson Carter, and David A. Bryant paid $136 for two lots on Gillespie Street and converted them into a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees to permanently maintain the property as a site for the education of Black children in Fayetteville. General O. O. Howard of the Freedmans Bureau, one of the best-known friends of Black education, erected a building on this site which became known as the Howard School. By an 1877 legislative act, the North Carolina General Assembly provided funds for a Normal School for the education of Black teachers. Notable Alumni: Jerry C. Johnson, Darrell Armstrong.
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