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I am a child of @MorrisBrownHBCU college and v happy to see this news. So is my father who has dedicated his entire 40 yr career to MBC. He's spent the last 18 doing everything he could to keep the doors open.
The only ATL HBCU founded by former slaves has new life. https://twitter.com/theatlantavoice/status/1326527101399404545
The only ATL HBCU founded by former slaves has new life. https://twitter.com/theatlantavoice/status/1326527101399404545
Side fact: In 1881, MBC was founded and sited in the Old Fourth Ward near the intersection of Blvd and John Wesley Dobbs. Around 1910, white residents & City Council wanted to move the school to its current location to minimize an increasing racially diverse n'hood.
The Chamber, white residents, and Council raised money to buy the property and tried to designate the property for a public school to force MBC to move. It resisted and even renovated its campus.
When it finally moved in 1932, MBC had endured every tactic imaginable in pursuit of maintaining a whites-only part of the O4W known as Jackson Hill...one of the few parts of the city that was primarily owner-occupied. Black and white homeowners, side-by-side.
The pressure to preserve a handful of white-only blocks in Jackson Hill proved to be too much. Morris Brown moved to its current location, crowned by Fountain Hall, and thrived. And, like Atlanta, we see it rising again from the ashes.
