This history of the origin, evolution, and demise of the Greenville
Women's College (1854-1961), a small, underfunded Baptist
institution in upstate South Carolina, traces its beginnings from a
female academy through its organization by the South Carolina
Baptist Convention, its struggle for survival and improvement
during the years after the Civil War, to its rising aspirations and
drive for accreditation in the 1920s. Unendowed and unable to
withstand the financial turmoil of the Great Depression, it was
forced to merge with nearby Furman University in the 1930s, but it
endured as a coordinate college until 1961 when its students joined
the men at Furman at a new coeducational campus.
This book, the first history of the college, provides the
missing half of Furman University's history. A social and
institutional history, it focuses on Southern women's changing
collegiate experience and the college's relationship to the South
Carolina Baptist Convention. It emphasizes the changing nature of
student life, examines the role of South Carolina Baptists in the
college, and examines the impact of the accreditation movement.
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