Sherman Industrial Institute

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Sherman Industrial Institute
Location
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Information
Former nameNorth Huntsville School
School typePrivate Black nonsectarian
Established1891

Sherman Industrial Institute was a private, nonsectarian, elementary school for African Americans in Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. [1] [2] [3] It was previously named North Huntsville School. [4]

History

F. R. Davis, former principal F. R. Davis.png
F. R. Davis, former principal

North Huntsville School organized in 1891. [4] The name was changed in 1804 to honor Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman. [4] One of the school's sites was previously owned by the Freedman's Aid Society and had been home to Central Alabama Academy. [3]

F. R. Davis served as principal of Sherman Industrial Institute. [4] [5] Teachers at the school were African American. [4] In 1922, Sherman Industrial Institute was reported to have 5 teachers for its 180 students. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Annual Report of the Department of Education of the State of Alabama". December 22, 1911. p. 217 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ United States Office of Education (1914). Annual Report. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 611 – via Google Books. Nonsect.
  3. 1 2 Judd, Charles Hubbard; Eliot, Charles William; Williams, J. Harold; Hoke, Kremer Jacob; Education, United States Office of; Larson, Walter E.; Ryan, Will Carson; Nelson, Ernesto; Parker, Samuel Chester (1917). "Sherman Industrial Institute". State Higher Educational Institutions of Iowa: A Report to the Iowa State Board of Education of a Survey Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Education. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 102 – via Google Books.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Sherman Industrial Institute". An Era of Progress and Promise, 1863–1910: The Religious, Moral, and Educational Development of the American Negro Since His Emancipation. Boston, MA: Priscilla Publishing Co. 1910. p. 359 – via digital.ncdcr.gov.
  5. ↑ Judd, Charles Hubbard; Eliot, Charles William; Harold Williams, J.; Hoke, Kremer Jacob; Larson, Walter E.; Ryan, Will Carson; Nelson, Ernesto; Parker, Samuel Chester (1917). "State Higher Educational Institutions of Iowa: A Report to the Iowa State Board of Education of a Survey Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Education".
  6. ↑ Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro. Negro Year Book Publishing Company. December 22, 1922. p. 276 – via Google Books.


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