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Brite Divinity School is a private college or university in Fort Worth, Tarrant County. It is one of 10 degree-granting colleges and universities TexasRoam maps in Tarrant County.
The site sits at 32.7101, -97.3591 near Fort Worth. The nearest cataloged historic site is Texas Christian University (historical marker), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Texas Christian University, Alice E. Carlson Elementary School, and University United Methodist Church.
Brite's story starts in 1895, when TCU religion instructor J. B. Sweeny split Bible instruction off from the regular religion department to form a distinct Bible College. Presidio County rancher Lucas Charles Brite funded a chair in English Bible in 1911 and made a further gift in 1914, and the school was incorporated and renamed Brite College of the Bible in his honor, with Colby D. Hall serving as dean from 1914 until 1947. After it lengthened its divinity degree to three years, the American Association of Theological Schools accredited it in 1941. When TCU's Religion Center opened in 1952, Brite took over its south wing, sharing the building with Robert Carr Chapel. The school admitted Black students in the early 1950s, roughly a decade before TCU as a whole desegregated in 1964, though those students were at first barred from seminary housing and the university cafeteria. A charter renewal in 1963 gave it the name Brite Divinity School. Today it is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and draws students from about thirty denominations.
Sources: tshaonline.orgen.wikipedia.org
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