Natchez Junior College

Booker T. Washington at Natchez College, October 7, 1908

Natchez Junior College, formerly Natchez College, was a private historically black college and later junior college opened in 1884 and closed in 1989, located in Natchez, Mississippi, United States.^[1][2]

Natchez College was formed in 1884 by an effort of the Baptist State Missionary Convention led by George W. Gayles.^[3] The school was initially called Natchez College and stopped giving bachelor's degrees and became a junior college in the 1960s.

List of presidents

• J. R. Buck (1904)^[4]
• Samuel Henry Clay Owen (1910–1929)^[5]

List of alumni

• Lloyd Tevis Miller (1872–1951), physician^[6]
• Anne Moody (1940–2015), writer, civil rights activist ^[7]
• James Alexander Owen (1891–1955), physician and politician^[8]

References

1. Stewart, J.B. (1997). African Americans and Post-Industrial Labor Markets. Transaction. p. 335. ISBN 978-1-4128-1655-7. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
2. Jackson, C.L.; Nunn, E.F. (2003). Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Reference Handbook. Contemporary education issues. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-422-6. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
3. Simmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p594-596
4. Patterson, H.L. (1904). Patterson's American Education. Educational Directories. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
5. Hartshorn, W. N.; Penniman, George W., eds. (1910). An Era of Progress and Promise: 1863–1910. Boston, MA: Priscilla Pub. Co. p. 274. OCLC 5343815.
6. Trotter, Michael (February 2015). "Lloyd Tevis Miller, MD. Professionals in the Jim Crow South". Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association. 56 (2): 49–53. PMID 25895287 – via ResearchGate.
7. Anne Moody Biography.com Retrieved 20 April 2015
8. Fisher, W. Douglas; Buckley, Joann H. (December 17, 2015). African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers. McFarland. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-4766-6315-9.