List of Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Defunct Institutions

Defunct Institutions

School City State Founded Type Religious Affiliation Comment
Bishop College Dallas Texas 1881 Private Home Mission Society Founded in Marshall, Texas; later moved to Dallas. Closed in 1988.
Daniel Payne College Birmingham Alabama 1889 Private African Methodist Episcopal Church Closed in 1979
Friendship College Rock Hill South Carolina 1891 Private Baptist Closed in 1981.
Guadalupe College Seguin Texas 1884 Private Texas Missionary Baptist General Convention Ceased operations after a fire destroyed the main building in 1936
Kittrell College Kittrell North Carolina 1886 Private African Methodist Episcopal Church Closed in 1975
Leland University New Orleans Louisiana 1870 Private Home Mission Society Founded as a grade school in New Orleans, Leland was a Baker, Louisiana-based Baptist University when it closed in the 1970s
Mississippi Industrial College Holly Springs Mississippi 1905 Private Colored Methodist Episcopal Church; later called the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Closed in 1982.
Mount Hermon Female Seminary Clinton Mississippi 1875 Private American Missionary Association Closed in 1924
Storer College Harpers Ferry West Virginia 1865 Private Founded by Freewill Baptist Missionary Society Closed in 1955. Its endowment was transferred to Virginia Union, where its alumni have been recognized, and its physical assets were given to Alderson-Broaddus College to create scholarships for black students. Its former campus is now part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Roger Williams College Nashville Tennessee 1864 Private Home Mission Society Closed in 1929
Western University (Kansas) Quindaro Kansas 1865 Private African Methodist Episcopal Church Closed in 1943

Read more about this topic:  List Of Historically Black Colleges And Universities

Famous quotes containing the words defunct and/or institutions:

    “The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “The question for the country now is how to secure a more equal distribution of property among the people. There can be no republican institutions with vast masses of property permanently in a few hands, and large masses of voters without property.... Let no man get by inheritance, or by will, more than will produce at four per cent interest an income ... of fifteen thousand dollars] per year, or an estate of five hundred thousand dollars.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)