Edmund Turney, organizer of the National Theological Institute for educating freedmen in Washington, D.C. Coulter, a former slave from Atlanta, Georgia, and the Rev. Tate, was one of the founders of Atlanta University, now known as Clark Atlanta University), with the support of the Rev. Just two years after the American Civil War, the Augusta Institute was founded by the William Jefferson White, an Atlanta Baptist minister and cabinetmaker (William Jefferson White's half brother James E.
Among Morehouse alumni, traditionally known as "Morehouse Men", the college has graduated numerous " African American firsts" in local, state and federal government as well as in science, academia, business, and entertainment. and Julian Bond, World Series MVP Donn Clendenon as well as entertainment icons Spike Lee and Samuel L. The largest men's liberal arts college in the U.S., Morehouse has been home to 11 Fulbright Scholars, five Rhodes Scholars, and five Marshall Scholars, and is the alma mater of many African-American civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. The college has played a key role in the development of the civil rights movement and racial equality in the United States. The three-decade tenure of Benjamin Mays during the mid-20th century led to strengthened finances, an enrollment boom, and increased academic competitiveness.
Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, the college experienced rapid albeit financially unstable institutional growth by establishing a liberal arts curriculum.
Founded by William Jefferson White in 1867 in response to the liberation of enslaved African-Americans following the American Civil War, Morehouse adopted a seminary university model and stressed religious instruction in the Baptist tradition. Along with Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University, and the Morehouse School of Medicine, the college is a member of the Atlanta University Center consortium. Anchored by its main campus of 61 acres (25 ha) near downtown Atlanta, the college has a variety of residential dorms and academic buildings east of Ashview Heights. Morehouse College is a private historically black men's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia.
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