The Beda-Etta College, also known as Beda-Etta Business College,[1] was a private business-focused junior college and commercial high school in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood of Macon, Georgia active from 1921 to 1955.[1][2][3]
History edit
The Beda-Etta College was founded and operated by Minnie Lee Smith, a public school teacher,[1] who named it for her two deceased sisters,[4] and who paid for it with her own money.[5][6] The school mainly taught courses to students of color related to business and commerce before offering a wider range of subjects.[5][7][8] The school was said to be the first business school in Georgia, and its courses ("typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, and banking") were taken by "many of Macon's future black leaders".[1]
Smith died in 1956 and is buried at Linwood Cemetery in Macon.[9] The Tubman African American Museum has the school's 1923 cornerstone.
References edit
- ^ a b c d Grant, Donald Lee (2001). Grant, Jonathan (ed.). The Way it was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia. University of Georgia Press. p. 230. ISBN 9780820323299.
- ^ The Macon Guide and Ocmulgee National Monument Project. Georgia Writers' Program. J. W. Burke Company. 1939. p. 35.
Beda Etta College, a junior college and commercial high school, was founded by Minnie L. Smith in 1920
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Brown, Titus (2002). Faithful, Firm, and True: African American Education in the South. Mercer University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-86554-777-3.
- ^ Herring, Jeanne (February 6, 2000). Macon, Georgia. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738506005.
- ^ a b "Macon". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Beda-Etta College at Memorial Church". The Macon News. 1930-04-06. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
- ^ The WPA Guide to Georgia: The Peach State Author Federal Writers' Project. Trinity University Press. 2013. p. 202. ISBN 9781595342096.
- ^ Maurer, Tracy (2001). Macon celebrates the millennium. Community Communications, Inc. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-58192-034-5. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Linwood Cemetery Macon Georgia". linwoodmacon.com.