A Short History of Morehouse College
Morehouse was founded in 1867, two years after the Civil War, by Rev. William Jefferson White as the Augusta Institute in Augusta, GA's Springfield Baptist Church. Initially designed as a Baptist theological school for Black men, it eventually moved to Atlanta where it has remained to the present day. John Hope, its fourth president, shifted its focus towards liberal arts scholarship beginning in 1906, and since then, Morehouse has developed into the largest liberal arts college in the US. It was heavily instrumental in the Civil Rights movement and has been a "candle in the dark" whose alumni ("Morehouse Men") include figures such as Samuel Nabrit, Graham T. Perry, Martin Luther King, Jr., Horace T. Ward, Julian Bond, Calvin B. Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Spike Lee.
