Lunchtime Learning- The New York Central College Wed. May 14 at noon

Join us for another Lunchtime Learning at the library for a presentation on The New York Central College with Mary Kimberly from the McGraw Historical Society on Wednesday, May 14 at noon.  The New York Central College was one of the first schools available to both men and women, and people of color in the country and it served as a model for Cornell University.  Register here to reserve your spot.  Bag lunches are welcome.

New-York Central College, McGrawville was an institution of higher learning founded by Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor and other anti-slavery Baptists in 1849 in McGraw, New York. The college was notable because it educated blacks as well as whites in the time of southern slavery and northern segregation, and educated women with men at a time when few institutions of higher learning were co-educational. In addition to the African-Americans in the student body, at least two of the school’s faculty were also black. The school’s curriculum included classical education as well as agricultural science.