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Simmons College of Kentucky, formerly known as Kentucky Normal Theological Institute, State University at Louisville, and later as Simmons Bible College, is a private, historically black college in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1879, it is the nation's 107th HBCU and is accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education. [1]
William J. Simmons (June 29, 1849 – October 30, 1890) was an American Baptist pastor, educator, author, and activist. He was a former enslaved person who became the second president of Simmons College of Kentucky (1880–1890), for whom the school was later named.
Progress on the College for Negros was delayed by the deaths of two University of Louisville Presidents while in Office: President Arthur Younger Ford (President from 1914 to 1926) and his successor, George Colvin (President from 1926 to 1928). [2] [3] The school was founded on the former location of Simmons College of Kentucky.
In February 1876, he was appointed the first black letter carrier in Kentucky. He was the leading layman of the General Association of Negro Baptists in Kentucky and played a key role in the founding of Simmons College of Kentucky by the group in 1879. He continued to play an important role in the college during his life.
Jerry Lee Eaves (born February 8, 1959) is an American head college basketball coach and athletic director at Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville. He is the former head men's basketball coach at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
In 1890, William J. Simmons, president of State University, resigned to create the Eckstein Institute in Cane Springs, Kentucky, and Parrish moved to Eckstein with Simmons [2] and served as president from Simmons' sudden death that year (1890) until 1912. In 1908 he established the Kentucky Home Society for Colored Children in Louisville.
Simmons College of Kentucky (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "African-American history in Louisville, Kentucky" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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