Mississippi History Timeline » Freedmen’s Aid Society of Methodist Episcopal Church establishes school in Holly Springs

10,000BCE–1518CE

Belle Kearney

Purple heart medal (Museum Collection)

January, 1866: Freedmen’s Aid Society of Methodist Episcopal Church establishes school in Holly Springs

The school was chartered as Shaw University in 1870 and changed to Rust University in 1882. It later became Rust College (1915).

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