began holding classes in a church building built in 1848. The school became Atlanta University in September 1865.
In the city of Atlanta, while the Civil War was well underway, two literate African American ex-slaves, James Tate and Grandison B. Daniels, in 1862 established the first school in Atlanta for African American children. It was located on the corner of Courtland and Jenkins Streets in a Baptist church building. Tate and Daniels, along with 25 other former slaves, founded Friendship Baptist Church. They began holding classes in a church building built in 1848. The school became Atlanta University in September 1865.
When white missionary Frederick Ayer, along with his wife, arrived in Atlanta in November 1865 under the auspices of the American Missionary Association, the AMA church purchased a boxcar for $310 (~$6,368 in 2024) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and sent it to Friendship by the Ninth Street Baptist Church of Cincinnati, Ohio. The modest space of the boxcar served two purposes: a new teaching …
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