Storer College
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Storer College was a historically Black college in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States, that operated from 1867 to 1955. A national icon for Black Americans, in the town where the 'end of Amer
Storer College postcard (1940)
Advertisement for Storer College, 1910
Nathan Cook Brackett, the founder of Storer College, from 1864
Oren Cheney founder and president of the Free will Baptist Church in Ocean Park, Maine, in 1879
John Brown's Fort
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John Brown's Fort was initially built in 1848 for use as a guard and fire engine house by the federal Harpers Ferry Armory, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. An 1848 military report described the building a
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…the NAACP and the Civil Rights Movement. The first American meeting of the predecessor of the NAACP, the Niagara Movement, was held at Storer in 1906. John Brown's Fort, a symbol of the end of slavery in the United States, was located from 1909 until 1968 on the Storer campus, where it was once used as the college…
John Brown's Fort in 2013
Drawing published in 1883. Note the words over the doors and the steep hill behind.
Harper's Ferry Armory in 1862, with the fire engine house on the left
Illustration of the interior of the engine house immediately before the door is broken down. Note the hostages on the left.