Okolona Industrial School. Records

AO-00-R0061-07

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Okolona Industrial School. Records

• 1921-1965 (Creation)

.3 cu.ft. (2 boxes partial)

Founded in 1902 by Wallace A. Battle, Okolona Industrial School did not become affiliated with the Episcopal Church until 1920 when the Diocese of Mississippi and ACI assumed oversight. The school was renamed Okolona College in 1932. In 1965 the Diocese of Mississippi decided to transfer its funding from Okolona College to areas of the state it considered to have greater need, and the school closed that same year.

ACI records on Okolona School include meeting minutes of the Board of Trustees (1938-1953, 1966) and its Executive Committee (1941, 1948-1952), the school President’s reports (1937-1942, 1944-1946, 1948), and financial records (1935-1968). ACI Director’s correspondence (1937-1944, 1950-1951) is primarily with the school’s principals and the bishops of Tennessee and Mississippi. This series includes a survey report of the school by the George Peabody College for Teachers (1946).

This material constitutes file series 14 of the ACI archive.

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• English

• American Church Institute. Administrative Records

• African American universities and colleges
• Higher education

• Okolona, Mississippi

• American Church Institute (Subject)