Sherman Industrial Institute was a private, nonsectarian, elementary school for African Americans in Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.[1][2][3] It was previously named North Huntsville School.[4]
| Sherman Industrial Institute | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
Huntsville, Alabama, United States | |
| Information | |
| Former name | North Huntsville School |
| School type | Private Black nonsectarian |
| Established | 1891 |
History
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The Sherman Industrial Institute was organized in 1891, as North Huntsville School.[4] The name was changed in 1804, and was named in honor of Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman.[4] One of the school's sites was previously owned by the Freedman's Aid Society and had been home to Central Alabama Academy.[3]
F. R. Davis served as principal of Sherman Industrial Institute.[4][5] Teachers at the school were African American.[4] In 1922, Sherman Industrial Institute was reported to have 5 teachers for its 180 students.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Annual Report of the Department of Education of the State of Alabama". December 22, 1911. p. 217 – via Google Books.
- ^ United States Office of Education (1914). Annual Report. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 611 – via Google Books.
Nonsect.
- ^ a b Judd, Charles Hubbard; Eliot, Charles William; Williams, J. Harold; Hoke, Kremer Jacob; Education, United States Office of; Larson, Walter E.; Ryan, Will Carson; Nelson, Ernesto; Parker, Samuel Chester (1917). "Sherman Industrial Institute". State Higher Educational Institutions of Iowa: A Report to the Iowa State Board of Education of a Survey Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Education. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 102 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e "Sherman Industrial Institute". An Era of Progress and Promise, 1863–1910: The Religious, Moral, and Educational Development of the American Negro Since His Emancipation. Boston, MA: Priscilla Publishing Co. 1910. p. 359 – via digital.ncdcr.gov.
- ^ Judd, Charles Hubbard; Eliot, Charles William; Harold Williams, J.; Hoke, Kremer Jacob; Larson, Walter E.; Ryan, Will Carson; Nelson, Ernesto; Parker, Samuel Chester (1917). "State Higher Educational Institutions of Iowa: A Report to the Iowa State Board of Education of a Survey Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Education".
- ^ Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro. Negro Year Book Publishing Company. December 22, 1922. p. 276 – via Google Books.
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