The Beda-Etta College, also known as Beda-Etta Business College, [1] was a private business-focused junior college and commercial high school in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood of Macon, Georgia active from 1921 to 1955. [1] [2] [3]
The Beda-Etta College was founded and operated by Minnie Lee Smith, a public school teacher, [1] who named it for her two deceased sisters, [4] and who paid for it with her own money. [5] [6] The school mainly taught courses to students of color related to business and commerce before offering a wider range of subjects. [5] [7] [8] The school was said to be the first business school in Georgia, and its courses ("typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, and banking") were taken by "many of Macon's future black leaders". [1]
Smith died in 1956 and is buried at Linwood Cemetery in Macon. [9] The Tubman African American Museum has the school's 1923 cornerstone.
Beda Etta College, a junior college and commercial high school, was founded by Minnie L. Smith in 1920
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The Beda-Etta College, also known as Beda-Etta Business College, [1] was a private business-focused junior college and commercial high school in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood of Macon, Georgia active from 1921 to 1955. [1] [2] [3]
The Beda-Etta College was founded and operated by Minnie Lee Smith, a public school teacher, [1] who named it for her two deceased sisters, [4] and who paid for it with her own money. [5] [6] The school mainly taught courses to students of color related to business and commerce before offering a wider range of subjects. [5] [7] [8] The school was said to be the first business school in Georgia, and its courses ("typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, and banking") were taken by "many of Macon's future black leaders". [1]
Smith died in 1956 and is buried at Linwood Cemetery in Macon. [9] The Tubman African American Museum has the school's 1923 cornerstone.
Beda Etta College, a junior college and commercial high school, was founded by Minnie L. Smith in 1920
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