The war decimated Baptists’ Wake Forest College in North Carolina. Recent months have been “gloomy,” the buildings are damaged, “utter impoverishment” is seemingly everywhere. Trustees in their summer meeting decided not to restart college classes. Today, however, nine of the trustees reconvene. Voicing optimism in the face of financial difficulties, they vote to resume classes…
This month in Virginia the American Baptist Home Mission society establishes the Richmond Institute, a school devoted to the training of African American preachers and teachers. Twenty-four initially enroll, and the classes are held at night. The following year the name of the school is changed to the National Theological Institute of Richmond, and in…
In North Carolina in October the Johnson administration’s appointed provisional governor, William Holden, opened the first post-war convention in the state. Central to the convention was the United States’ demand that North Carolina repeal her secession ordinance. For three days delegates (all white) argue over the wording of an anti-secession ordinance, finally passing the ordinance…