When was prairie view am founded

Thomas S. Gathright of Mississippi, also from Mississippi and he brought Mr. Minor, of Mississippi to serve as Principal. Eight young African American men, the first of their race to enroll in a state-supported college in Texas, began their studies on March 11, This curriculum was expanded to include the arts and sciences, home economics, agriculture, mechanical arts and nursing after the University was established as a branch of the Agricultural Experiment Station Hatch Act, and as a Land Grant College Morrill Act, Thus began the tradition of agricultural research and community service, which continues today.

Governor O. But Barnas Sears, an agent for the Peabody Fund, persuaded the Sixteenth Legislature to charter two "normal" schools for the training of teachers, one of which was named Prairie View Normal Institute. Girls were housed in the plantation house now called Kirby Hall, and boys were housed in a combination chapel and dormitory called Pickett Hall. The board hired E. Anderson as minister-teacher and his brother Laurine C.

Anderson as his assistant. In a storm took Pickett Hall off its blocks. Brown refused to continue paying the school's debts from the university fund, which forced the governor to solicit money from merchants.

Anderson died in , and L. Anderson became the principal of Prairie View as the legislature resolved a heated debate in by adding an agricultural and mechanical department. Academic Hall and an experiment station were thrown in for good measure. Edward L. Blackshear was appointed principal in , and Booker T. Washington made his first commencement address at Prairie View on June 4, Though greatly admired, Blackshear lost his position in , as a result of prohibition politics and the election of James E.

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