Black Colleges: A Continuing Legacy
St. Paul’s Normal and Industrial School (Lawrenceville, Virginia), St. Augustine’s Normal School and Collegiate Institute (Raleigh, North Carolina), and Bishop Payne Divinity School (Petersburg, Virginia) were the first and largest schools administered by ACIN. Later, Fort Valley High and Industrial School (Fort Valley, Georgia) and then Voorhees School and Junior College (Denmark, South Carolina) joined ACIN as schools receiving the largest percentage of available funds.
Fort Valley’s transfer to the State of Georgia in 1939 (though ACIN continued its support to the school) and the closing of Bishop Payne in 1949 left the core institutions of St. Paul’s, St. Augustine’s, and Voorhees as the only schools to remain under ACIN when the organization dissolved in 1967. [Sources]
The 1939-40 St. Augustine’s basketball team, 1939.
Biology class at St. Augustine’s, c. 1935.
The Bishop Ferguson Club, a unit of the National Student Council, at St. Augustine’s, April 1927.
A bricklaying student at St. Augustine’s, c. 1915.
The 1936 Brotherhood of St. Andrew chapter at St. Augustine’s - the only chapter in the ACIN schools, chartered in 1934.
Carpentry training at St. Augustine’s, c. 1925.
The 1938-39 St. Augustine’s College choir, 1939.
A confirmation class of St. Augustine’s students, 1958.
African American faculty members at St. Augustine’s College, October 1902.
Studying in the girls’ dormitory, 1940s.
Class of 1937 at St. Augustine’s.
Students with professor and coach, Arthur Chippey, May 1941.
A cosmetology class at St. Paul’s College, 1958.
Girls sewing graduation dresses, a requirement at St. Paul’s, 1936.
A bricklaying class at St. Paul’s College, 1958.