🎓 Howe Institute (Tennessee)

The Howe Institute, originally called as the Memphis Baptist Bible and Normal Institute, was an American training school for African Americans. It was founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1888 by the Afro-American Baptists of Tennessee. Sometime before 1909, its name changed to the Howe Institute. Later, it was called Howe Collegiate Institute and Howe Junior College. The college closed during the Great Depression and merged with LeMoyne College in 1937.