DETAILS: Scotia Seminary 1906 Commencement Program. Four pages in length. Gives a list of the class graduates (divided by their departments) for 1906 along with their hometowns. Also includes program of events along with list of  speakers, dignitaries, performers, musicians and staff. Measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" inches.  For other items from this estate collection, visit our ebay store. KEYWORD: Scotia Seminary



HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: Scotia Seminary (1867-1915) was an African American female seminary school founded in Concord, North Carolina, in 1867 by the Presbyterian Church to prepare young  black southern women (the daughters of former slaves) for careers as social workers and teachers. It was the first historically black female institution of higher education established after the American Civil War. Historians consider it to be the  first black institution built after the Civil War. For the first time, it gave black women an alternative to becoming domestic servants or field hands. Scotia Seminary offered its students grammar, science, and domestic arts. In 1908 it had 19 teachers and 291 students. From its founding in 1867 to 1908 it had enrolled 2,900 students, with 604 having graduated from the grammar department and 109 from the normal department. The school was modeled after Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) and was referred to as "The Mount Holyoke of the South". 




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