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Joseph Winthrop Holley. Joseph Winthrop Holley (1874 – 1958) was a 19th-century American educator and author. He is best known as the founder of Albany State University, which he founded in 1903 as the Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute. He served as the school's president from its inception until his retirement in 1943. [1][2]
Joseph Winthrop Holley, born in 1874 to former slaves in Winnsboro, South Carolina, founded the institution in 1903 as the Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute.Two educators, Reverend Samuel Lane Loomis and his wife, sent Holley to Brainerd Institute and then Revere Lay College (Massachusetts).
Joseph Winthrop Holley: 1897 founder of Albany State College: William E. Holmes: former President of Central City College, faculty of the Atlanta Baptist Institute, now Morehouse College for 25 years. Langston Hughes: 1929 poet Roderick L. Ireland: 1966 first African American associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [3]
Joseph Winthrop Holley attended the school, originally known as Willard Richardson School, until Richardson and his family returned to New Jersey. [3] The school’s enrollment reached about 100. [4] Supported by the Presbyterian Church, [5] [6] the school was succeeded by a school established by Rev. J. C. Watkins. [3] Enrollment reached 354 ...
The Georgia Association of Educators is a union of public school educators in Georgia.It was established in 1970 when the Georgia Teachers and Education Association, which was black-only at the time (established in 1933 by Joseph Winthrop Holley), merged with the all-white Georgia Education Association. [2]
Lincoln University (LU) is a public state-related historically black university (HBCU) near Oxford, Pennsylvania. Founded as the private Ashmun Institute in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972 and is the second HBCU in the state, after Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. [5] Lincoln is also recognized as the first college-degree ...
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Joseph Winthrop Holley and Kelly Miller attended the school. [20] Winnsboro has a public library, a branch of the Fairfield County Library. [21] Winnsboro is served by the Fairfield County Public School system. Currently, Fairfield County schools hold a ranking C+, based on the most recent ratings. [22]