Appeal to White Brethren
Sensing this need very keenly, the colored ministers have brought this situation to the attention of the white brethren; so that now, a concrete effort is being made to equip aspiring young ministers among the colored race for effective work among their people, and to train colored young people for service and leadership in the church [p. 2].
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Entire School Plant Bought
building a school plant is a long and expensive process. usually it take hundreds of dollars and a long span of time to construct the buildings necessary for a college. When an opportunity was afforded, then, to buy an entire school plant, complete with equipment, the Board of trustees felt it was indeed a God-send. Such a plant is to be found at Terrell, Texas. The Texas Military College, founded there in 1915, ceased to operate in 1949, and the owners offered the school facilities for sale…
The buildings include a large three-story brick administration building, gymnasium, two brick dormitories, dining hall and kitchen, three large brick residence, and five frame houses, and shops. The buildings will be complete with all furniture and other equipment used the past spring by TMC [p. 3].
—see the photograph below, with description, on p. 4
—Southern Bible Institute, Terrell, Texas, A Junior College Offering Christian Education to the Colored, Sponsored by Members of the Church of Christ [Terrell: Southern Bible Institute, 1949], pp. 2-4
This eight-page brochure served as a prospectus for the newly-relocated college from Fort Worth to Terrell, upon purchase of the former Texas Military College campus. It was designed to inform potential donors of the opportunities and challenges facing the school, and therefore to solicit monetary donations.
Southern Bible Institute grew from the efforts of George Philip Bowser, R. N. Hogan, John S. Winston, H. H. Gray, R. B. Bond, O. B. Butler, G. P. Holt, Levi Kennedy, W. D. Morrison, R. F. Nunley, Paul Settles, G. E. Steward, and Walter Weathers, and others. Working in cooperation with them were various white leaders, such as E. W. McMillan (President of SBI at the time this brochure was printed), John Young (elder at Sears and Summit Church of Christ in Dallas), Otto Foster, J. B. McGinty, Gayle Oler, Walter Adams, B Sherrod, H. E. Speck and others more or less generally, or specifically in some cases, affiliated with Abilene Christian College.
While Nashville Christian Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, provided primary and secondary training, SBI intended to focus on secondary and junior college work.
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