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Visit Storer College, the Oldest HBCU in West Virginia | Get Out of Town
During their trip to Harpers Ferry, Laurita and Lauren visit Storer College, the first HBCU in West Virginia, which was established in 1867 by Freewill Baptists as an effort to educate freedmen after the Civil War. As Delores Jackson Foster of the Harpers Ferry-Bolivar Historic Town Foundation explains, Storer College closed in 1955 but in 1962, the National Park Service took over the preservation of the surviving buildings on campus. While the Portees explore, they reflect on the significance of the school, the education it provided for Black Americans, and the continuing battle for equality. They discuss how attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has been a meaningful experience for members of their own family, and they pay tribute to those who have helped shape t...
published: 02 May 2023
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Standing in Hope: A Storer College Documentary
A short documentary on Storer College, centering around one of its most revered alumni, Pearl Tatten.
published: 16 Sep 2023
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Storer College - Beacon of Hope - Dr. Dawne R. Burke (Click "cc")
Dr. Dawne Raines Burke graduated from Shepherd University in 1995 and received her PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2004, entitled "Storer College: A Hope for Redemption in the Shadow of Slavery, 1865-1955." Her book, "An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation," was published in August 2006 by Geyer Printing House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/34724549_Storer_College_electronic_resource_a_hope_for_redemption_in_the_shadow_of_slavery_1
Transcript:
How did the Free Will Baptist institute Storer College in Harpers Ferry just before and following the American Civil War?
Before I begin to answer this question, I would like to add this note, although my research focuses specifically on ...
published: 27 Jun 2022
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Storer college Tour
A tour of historic Black Educational institution Storer College in Harpers Ferry WV. tour given by Park Ranger/Interpretive Trainer john Rudy to Shepherd university Students on Feb. 24, 2017
published: 26 Feb 2017
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1946 Storer College Commencement (unedited)
Website: https://storercollege.lib.wvu.edu/
A&M 2621, Storer College, Box 46 of 48, Motion Pictures, 1945, 1946, West Virginia & Regional History Center, WVU Libraries
Storer College was a historically black college located in Harpers Ferry in Jefferson County, West Virginia. It operated from 1865 until 1955. Its former campus is now part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
This video is provided by the West Virginia & Regional History Center (WVRHC). The WVRHC collects, preserves, and provides public access to materials that show the history and culture of West Virginia and the central Appalachian region.
published: 30 Apr 2015
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Hope On the Hill: The Story of Harpers Ferry's Storer College (2017)
In 1867, Storer College, one of the first desegregated schools in American history, opened in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and welcomed former slaves who sought an education. It grew from a one-room schoolhouse into a degree-granting college open to all races, religions, and sexes. Many of the graduates became teachers in the 19th- and 20th-century "colored" schools of Loudoun County, Virginia. Presented on August 13, 2017 by Guinevere Roper, National Park Service Ranger.
After the Civil War ended in 1865, four million people who had been freed from slavery could begin living a life they had only dreamed about while held in bondage. Two years later, in 1867, the Freedman’s Bureau, the Freewill Baptists of New England, and philanthropist John Storer came together to found Storer Colleg...
published: 30 Apr 2018
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All New! Chasing History. Storer College
Storer College was a historically black college in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, that operated from 1867 to 1955.
#film #hbcu #film #education
published: 21 Nov 2023
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Harpers Ferry Camp Hill And Storer College
Spent the day in Harpers Ferry on Camp Hill and Storer College areas. Rich in history and Civil Rights.
published: 16 Nov 2020
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Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
published: 14 Jan 2014
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Storer College 100 HBCUs in 100 days Day 65
Storer College #StorerCollege #WestVirginia #HBCU #College #University #Graduation #Basketball #WNBA #outfitinspo
published: 02 Feb 2023
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Visit Storer College, the Oldest HBCU in West Virginia | Get Out of Town
During their trip to Harpers Ferry, Laurita and Lauren visit Storer College, the first HBCU in West Virginia, which was established in 1867 by Freewill Baptists...
During their trip to Harpers Ferry, Laurita and Lauren visit Storer College, the first HBCU in West Virginia, which was established in 1867 by Freewill Baptists as an effort to educate freedmen after the Civil War. As Delores Jackson Foster of the Harpers Ferry-Bolivar Historic Town Foundation explains, Storer College closed in 1955 but in 1962, the National Park Service took over the preservation of the surviving buildings on campus. While the Portees explore, they reflect on the significance of the school, the education it provided for Black Americans, and the continuing battle for equality. They discuss how attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has been a meaningful experience for members of their own family, and they pay tribute to those who have helped shape their lives.
ABOUT THE SHOW
This video is part of WETA's local travel series, "Get Out of Town" series, which spotlights destinations outside of Washington DC. Co-hosted by mother-daughter duo Laurita and Lauren Portee, "Get Out of Town" takes viewers on road trips to delightful destinations within a half-day's drive of D.C. At each one, the show offers recommendations of places to stay, places to eat and things to do. Whether you’re into history, culture, relaxation, high-energy action – or all of the above – "Get Out of Town" is an essential guide to local getaways.
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During their trip to Harpers Ferry, Laurita and Lauren visit Storer College, the first HBCU in West Virginia, which was established in 1867 by Freewill Baptists as an effort to educate freedmen after the Civil War. As Delores Jackson Foster of the Harpers Ferry-Bolivar Historic Town Foundation explains, Storer College closed in 1955 but in 1962, the National Park Service took over the preservation of the surviving buildings on campus. While the Portees explore, they reflect on the significance of the school, the education it provided for Black Americans, and the continuing battle for equality. They discuss how attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has been a meaningful experience for members of their own family, and they pay tribute to those who have helped shape their lives.
ABOUT THE SHOW
This video is part of WETA's local travel series, "Get Out of Town" series, which spotlights destinations outside of Washington DC. Co-hosted by mother-daughter duo Laurita and Lauren Portee, "Get Out of Town" takes viewers on road trips to delightful destinations within a half-day's drive of D.C. At each one, the show offers recommendations of places to stay, places to eat and things to do. Whether you’re into history, culture, relaxation, high-energy action – or all of the above – "Get Out of Town" is an essential guide to local getaways.
Watch more short segments of "Get Out of Town": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx24Rcql20qI-6EkAYZzpJvVu4PkpOULH
Stream full episodes of "Get Out of Town": https://weta.org/watch/shows/get-out-town
Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest releases and recommendations!
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- published: 02 May 2023
- views: 404
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Standing in Hope: A Storer College Documentary
A short documentary on Storer College, centering around one of its most revered alumni, Pearl Tatten.
A short documentary on Storer College, centering around one of its most revered alumni, Pearl Tatten.
https://wn.com/Standing_In_Hope_A_Storer_College_Documentary
A short documentary on Storer College, centering around one of its most revered alumni, Pearl Tatten.
- published: 16 Sep 2023
- views: 130
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Storer College - Beacon of Hope - Dr. Dawne R. Burke (Click "cc")
Dr. Dawne Raines Burke graduated from Shepherd University in 1995 and received her PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2004, entitle...
Dr. Dawne Raines Burke graduated from Shepherd University in 1995 and received her PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2004, entitled "Storer College: A Hope for Redemption in the Shadow of Slavery, 1865-1955." Her book, "An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation," was published in August 2006 by Geyer Printing House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/34724549_Storer_College_electronic_resource_a_hope_for_redemption_in_the_shadow_of_slavery_1
Transcript:
How did the Free Will Baptist institute Storer College in Harpers Ferry just before and following the American Civil War?
Before I begin to answer this question, I would like to add this note, although my research focuses specifically on the Free Will Baptist endeavor. Here in the lower Shenandoah Valley, this certainly does not preclude the fact that other denominations, such as Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker, Episcopal also made contributions to the religious development here. In the case of Nathan Cook Brackett, however, after short council with his Home Mission Society in Dover, New Hampshire Dr. Brackett suggests to the denomination that the Home Mission Society tried to secure four bombed-out buildings atop Camp Hill in Harpers Ferr,y West Virginia. This area during the war years had been denuded for the army's tent city regiments. In these four buildings they would institute Storer College, the first higher education institution to which persons of color would be admitted and also the first normal teachers' college for the training of colored teachers to teach in colored schools throughout the new state of West Virginia and the surrounding region.
Also the Free Will Baptists would accept freedmen, war indigents and vagabonds. These would initially make up the classes. They would be rounded up to begin initial lessons for basic literacy skills and, of course, the Free Will Baptist, as was current with the times, would use the Bible by which and for which to teach those literacy skills. Nathan Cook Brackett's communication to the Free Will Baptist Home Mission Society led to a midnight conversation in 1867 between Oren Burbank Cheney and John Storer, both of Maine.
Cheney grew up in an emancipationist household, confirmed by Cheney's diary entries which include frequent visits to the Cheney residents by ex-slaves and abolitionists, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Livermore and Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. Storer was a wealthy New England merchant with several stores scattered throughout the Maine state. Storer wanted to make a donation for a school to be established in the south for uneducated and disenfranchised former slaves. Most New Englanders, not all, believed that a sure outcome of the war would be the slaves' freedom. Dr Cheney was responsible for securing Storer's donation with Storer's pro viso that the denomination raised a like some for use in the south. Storer donated ten thousand dollars to the Free Will Baptist to do just that. When compared against today's current rate of purchasing power, ten thousand dollars then is equivalent to a hundred and fifty two thousand dollars today. So with federal support from Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, General Oliver Otis Howard, heading the post-war Freedmen's Bureau, including particular support from Senator William Pitt Fessenden and United States representative James A. Garfield, the denomination set to work in the Valley on June 6, 1867 in Northwood, New Hampshire, four months after Cheney's initial meeting with John Storer in Sanford, Maine, the Home Society had quickly organized what it called the Commission for the Promotion of Education in the South. The Commission was organized by and composed of men that believed, by investing in social betterment and consequently the education of former slaves, they were indeed improving the quality of living for all American citizens regardless of the prevailing sentiment. The Scope of this belief may be traced back to the religious awakenings in 1867. Over 20 incorporators made application to the West Virginia state legislature for a school charter. When the phrase "without distinction of race or color" was read in the application by the state legislators, it gave rise to a fierce debate with intense and violent opposition. Wrote one of the Free Will Baptists when Joseph T. Hoke, who was both a member of the Commission for Promotion and an elected state senator from the neighboring county of Berkeley realized that the school's charter was within marginal passage jeopardy, Hoke sagaciously resigned his position
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https://wn.com/Storer_College_Beacon_Of_Hope_Dr._Dawne_R._Burke_(Click_Cc_)
Dr. Dawne Raines Burke graduated from Shepherd University in 1995 and received her PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2004, entitled "Storer College: A Hope for Redemption in the Shadow of Slavery, 1865-1955." Her book, "An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation," was published in August 2006 by Geyer Printing House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/34724549_Storer_College_electronic_resource_a_hope_for_redemption_in_the_shadow_of_slavery_1
Transcript:
How did the Free Will Baptist institute Storer College in Harpers Ferry just before and following the American Civil War?
Before I begin to answer this question, I would like to add this note, although my research focuses specifically on the Free Will Baptist endeavor. Here in the lower Shenandoah Valley, this certainly does not preclude the fact that other denominations, such as Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker, Episcopal also made contributions to the religious development here. In the case of Nathan Cook Brackett, however, after short council with his Home Mission Society in Dover, New Hampshire Dr. Brackett suggests to the denomination that the Home Mission Society tried to secure four bombed-out buildings atop Camp Hill in Harpers Ferr,y West Virginia. This area during the war years had been denuded for the army's tent city regiments. In these four buildings they would institute Storer College, the first higher education institution to which persons of color would be admitted and also the first normal teachers' college for the training of colored teachers to teach in colored schools throughout the new state of West Virginia and the surrounding region.
Also the Free Will Baptists would accept freedmen, war indigents and vagabonds. These would initially make up the classes. They would be rounded up to begin initial lessons for basic literacy skills and, of course, the Free Will Baptist, as was current with the times, would use the Bible by which and for which to teach those literacy skills. Nathan Cook Brackett's communication to the Free Will Baptist Home Mission Society led to a midnight conversation in 1867 between Oren Burbank Cheney and John Storer, both of Maine.
Cheney grew up in an emancipationist household, confirmed by Cheney's diary entries which include frequent visits to the Cheney residents by ex-slaves and abolitionists, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Livermore and Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. Storer was a wealthy New England merchant with several stores scattered throughout the Maine state. Storer wanted to make a donation for a school to be established in the south for uneducated and disenfranchised former slaves. Most New Englanders, not all, believed that a sure outcome of the war would be the slaves' freedom. Dr Cheney was responsible for securing Storer's donation with Storer's pro viso that the denomination raised a like some for use in the south. Storer donated ten thousand dollars to the Free Will Baptist to do just that. When compared against today's current rate of purchasing power, ten thousand dollars then is equivalent to a hundred and fifty two thousand dollars today. So with federal support from Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, General Oliver Otis Howard, heading the post-war Freedmen's Bureau, including particular support from Senator William Pitt Fessenden and United States representative James A. Garfield, the denomination set to work in the Valley on June 6, 1867 in Northwood, New Hampshire, four months after Cheney's initial meeting with John Storer in Sanford, Maine, the Home Society had quickly organized what it called the Commission for the Promotion of Education in the South. The Commission was organized by and composed of men that believed, by investing in social betterment and consequently the education of former slaves, they were indeed improving the quality of living for all American citizens regardless of the prevailing sentiment. The Scope of this belief may be traced back to the religious awakenings in 1867. Over 20 incorporators made application to the West Virginia state legislature for a school charter. When the phrase "without distinction of race or color" was read in the application by the state legislators, it gave rise to a fierce debate with intense and violent opposition. Wrote one of the Free Will Baptists when Joseph T. Hoke, who was both a member of the Commission for Promotion and an elected state senator from the neighboring county of Berkeley realized that the school's charter was within marginal passage jeopardy, Hoke sagaciously resigned his position
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- published: 27 Jun 2022
- views: 85
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Storer college Tour
A tour of historic Black Educational institution Storer College in Harpers Ferry WV. tour given by Park Ranger/Interpretive Trainer john Rudy to Shepherd univer...
A tour of historic Black Educational institution Storer College in Harpers Ferry WV. tour given by Park Ranger/Interpretive Trainer john Rudy to Shepherd university Students on Feb. 24, 2017
https://wn.com/Storer_College_Tour
A tour of historic Black Educational institution Storer College in Harpers Ferry WV. tour given by Park Ranger/Interpretive Trainer john Rudy to Shepherd university Students on Feb. 24, 2017
- published: 26 Feb 2017
- views: 445
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1946 Storer College Commencement (unedited)
Website: https://storercollege.lib.wvu.edu/
A&M 2621, Storer College, Box 46 of 48, Motion Pictures, 1945, 1946, West Virginia & Regional History Center, WVU ...
Website: https://storercollege.lib.wvu.edu/
A&M 2621, Storer College, Box 46 of 48, Motion Pictures, 1945, 1946, West Virginia & Regional History Center, WVU Libraries
Storer College was a historically black college located in Harpers Ferry in Jefferson County, West Virginia. It operated from 1865 until 1955. Its former campus is now part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
This video is provided by the West Virginia & Regional History Center (WVRHC). The WVRHC collects, preserves, and provides public access to materials that show the history and culture of West Virginia and the central Appalachian region.
https://wn.com/1946_Storer_College_Commencement_(Unedited)
Website: https://storercollege.lib.wvu.edu/
A&M 2621, Storer College, Box 46 of 48, Motion Pictures, 1945, 1946, West Virginia & Regional History Center, WVU Libraries
Storer College was a historically black college located in Harpers Ferry in Jefferson County, West Virginia. It operated from 1865 until 1955. Its former campus is now part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
This video is provided by the West Virginia & Regional History Center (WVRHC). The WVRHC collects, preserves, and provides public access to materials that show the history and culture of West Virginia and the central Appalachian region.
- published: 30 Apr 2015
- views: 794
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Hope On the Hill: The Story of Harpers Ferry's Storer College (2017)
In 1867, Storer College, one of the first desegregated schools in American history, opened in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and welcomed former slaves who sough...
In 1867, Storer College, one of the first desegregated schools in American history, opened in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and welcomed former slaves who sought an education. It grew from a one-room schoolhouse into a degree-granting college open to all races, religions, and sexes. Many of the graduates became teachers in the 19th- and 20th-century "colored" schools of Loudoun County, Virginia. Presented on August 13, 2017 by Guinevere Roper, National Park Service Ranger.
After the Civil War ended in 1865, four million people who had been freed from slavery could begin living a life they had only dreamed about while held in bondage. Two years later, in 1867, the Freedman’s Bureau, the Freewill Baptists of New England, and philanthropist John Storer came together to found Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia – a school that became known as “the hope on the hill.”
The story of Storer College will be presented by Guinevere Roper, a long-time Park Ranger at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, who has been instrumental in organizing the ongoing year-long series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Storer College.
Starting as a one-room schoolhouse teaching the basics to former slaves who wanted an education, Storer grew into a degree-granting college on Camp Hill, open to all without regard to race, religion, or sex. Many of its graduates became prominent businessmen, politicians, and educators. Other excelled in the arts as authors and musicians. Some became local, national, and international figures who made long-lasting contributions to their field.
In its early years, Storer was largely a teachers’ college, providing many of the teachers for Loudoun County’s “colored” schools from late 19th century up into the 1950s. Storer College closed its doors one year after the Supreme Court’s historical 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision directing school desegregation.
The Lovettsville Historical Society, working with the Edwin Washington Project, has identified almost 50 teachers from Storer College who taught in Loudoun County’s many black schools, including in Lovettsville.
www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/
https://wn.com/Hope_On_The_Hill_The_Story_Of_Harpers_Ferry's_Storer_College_(2017)
In 1867, Storer College, one of the first desegregated schools in American history, opened in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and welcomed former slaves who sought an education. It grew from a one-room schoolhouse into a degree-granting college open to all races, religions, and sexes. Many of the graduates became teachers in the 19th- and 20th-century "colored" schools of Loudoun County, Virginia. Presented on August 13, 2017 by Guinevere Roper, National Park Service Ranger.
After the Civil War ended in 1865, four million people who had been freed from slavery could begin living a life they had only dreamed about while held in bondage. Two years later, in 1867, the Freedman’s Bureau, the Freewill Baptists of New England, and philanthropist John Storer came together to found Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia – a school that became known as “the hope on the hill.”
The story of Storer College will be presented by Guinevere Roper, a long-time Park Ranger at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, who has been instrumental in organizing the ongoing year-long series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Storer College.
Starting as a one-room schoolhouse teaching the basics to former slaves who wanted an education, Storer grew into a degree-granting college on Camp Hill, open to all without regard to race, religion, or sex. Many of its graduates became prominent businessmen, politicians, and educators. Other excelled in the arts as authors and musicians. Some became local, national, and international figures who made long-lasting contributions to their field.
In its early years, Storer was largely a teachers’ college, providing many of the teachers for Loudoun County’s “colored” schools from late 19th century up into the 1950s. Storer College closed its doors one year after the Supreme Court’s historical 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision directing school desegregation.
The Lovettsville Historical Society, working with the Edwin Washington Project, has identified almost 50 teachers from Storer College who taught in Loudoun County’s many black schools, including in Lovettsville.
www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/
- published: 30 Apr 2018
- views: 352
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All New! Chasing History. Storer College
Storer College was a historically black college in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, that operated from 1867 to 1955.
#film #hbcu #film #education
Storer College was a historically black college in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, that operated from 1867 to 1955.
#film #hbcu #film #education
https://wn.com/All_New_Chasing_History._Storer_College
Storer College was a historically black college in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, that operated from 1867 to 1955.
#film #hbcu #film #education
- published: 21 Nov 2023
- views: 9
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Harpers Ferry Camp Hill And Storer College
Spent the day in Harpers Ferry on Camp Hill and Storer College areas. Rich in history and Civil Rights.
Spent the day in Harpers Ferry on Camp Hill and Storer College areas. Rich in history and Civil Rights.
https://wn.com/Harpers_Ferry_Camp_Hill_And_Storer_College
Spent the day in Harpers Ferry on Camp Hill and Storer College areas. Rich in history and Civil Rights.
- published: 16 Nov 2020
- views: 295
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Storer College 100 HBCUs in 100 days Day 65
Storer College #StorerCollege #WestVirginia #HBCU #College #University #Graduation #Basketball #WNBA #outfitinspo
Storer College #StorerCollege #WestVirginia #HBCU #College #University #Graduation #Basketball #WNBA #outfitinspo
https://wn.com/Storer_College_100_Hbcus_In_100_Days_Day_65
Storer College #StorerCollege #WestVirginia #HBCU #College #University #Graduation #Basketball #WNBA #outfitinspo
- published: 02 Feb 2023
- views: 28