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HUSTON-TILLOTSON HISTORY Tillotson College dates to 1875 when the Congregationalists (now known as the United Church of Christ) worked with the “freedmen,” the descendants of slavery, to establish a secondary school. The secondary school eventually became Tillotson College and Normal Institute. Over three years, the Institute changed to Andrews Normal School, a junior college, a women’s college, and a senior college. The roots of Samuel Huston College date to 1876 when the Reverend George Warren Richardson, a Methodist minister from Minnesota, leased St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas, as the site for a school for the colored youth of Dallas. A fire destroyed St. Paul, and the school was relocated to a temporary site and then to the Colored Methodists Church of America. Eventually, the Methodist West Texas Conference agreed to relocate the school to Austin, Texas, and Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, now known as Wesley United Methodist Church. Huston-Tillotson College, chartered in 1952 by the State of Texas, represents the merger of Tillotson College and Samuel Huston College. Following the merger, Huston-Tillotson College became the sole provider of higher education for African Americans in Central Texas until the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which launched the period of desegregation. Huston-Tillotson College officially changed its name to Huston-Tillotson University, effective February 28, 2005.
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