Morehouse College is a private, historically black, men's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, founded by William Jefferson White in 1867 in response to the liberation of enslaved African Americans following the Civil War, stressing preparatory and religious instruction in the Baptist tradition for students previously barred from education by slave laws. It is a member of the Atlanta University Center consortium along with Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University and Morris Brown College, and is the largest men's liberal arts college in the United States. It has played a key role in the development of the civil rights movement, and its alumni include civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and filmmaker Spike Lee, along with 11 Fulbright Scholars, six Rhodes Scholars and five Marshall Scholars.
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Was Morehouse College always called Morehouse?
No. It was renamed Morehouse College in 1913, having been called Atlanta Baptist College.
No. The college was known as Atlanta Baptist College until 1913, when it was renamed Morehouse College after Henry Lyman Morehouse, corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society.
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Morehouse College is a private, historically black, men's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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1867
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Atlanta
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Private historically black men's liberal arts college
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Morehouse College is a private, historically black, men's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, founded by William Jefferson White in 1867 in response to the liberation of enslaved African Americans following the Civil War, stressing preparatory and religious instruction in the Baptist tradition for students previously barred from education by slave laws.
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