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St. Philip's College is a public college or university in San Antonio, Bexar County. It is one of 17 degree-granting colleges and universities TexasRoam maps in Bexar County.
The site sits at 29.4151, -98.4533 near San Antonio. The nearest cataloged historic site is Saint Philip's College (historical marker), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include San Antonio Lodge No. 1, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, and Hermann Sons Cemetery.
St. Philip's began on March 1, 1898, as a weekend sewing class for six Black girls, organized by Episcopal Bishop James Steptoe Johnston and taught in an old adobe house in La Villita by missionary Alice G. Cowan. Artemisia Bowden, the daughter of a former slave, took charge in 1902 and led the school for 52 years, building it from St. Philip's Normal and Industrial School into a high school and, by 1927, a junior college for San Antonio's Black community. The school moved in 1917 from La Villita to its present East Side site. It stayed a private Episcopal institution until 1942, when it became a public junior college affiliated with San Antonio College, and it later joined the district that is now the Alamo Colleges. St. Philip's began admitting white students in 1955, added the Southwest Campus at former Kelly Air Force Base in 1987, and today, still recognized as a historically Black college, serves students in more than 70 academic and technical disciplines.
Sources: tshaonline.orgen.wikipedia.org
“St. Philip's College” names 2 distinct records in Bexar County. This page is the college & university in San Antonio. The others:
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