Mary Allen Seminary

Crockett, Italy

Mary Allen Seminary (later called Mary Allen Junior College) was the first black women's college in the state of Texas. Initially a parochial school founded and run by white Presbyterians, it was restructured in 1924 and became an accredited junior college with an all-black faculty and black adminis

trator in 1933. The school was closed in 1943, reopened the following year, and operated until 1972.

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