Paul Quinn College
Paul Quinn College is a private historically black Methodist college in Dallas, Texas founded in the year 1872. The college is affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It is the oldest historically black college west of the Mississippi River and the nation’s first urban work college.
Although formal instructional programs at Jarvis began on January 13, 1913, with an enrollment of twelve students, all in the elementary grades, the school began as early as 1904, when the Negro Disciples of Christ of Texas began to plan for a school for black youth. Major James Jarvis and his wife Ida Van Zandt Jarvis donated land upon which the school could be built; the family deeded 456 acres to the Christian Women’s Board of Missions on the condition it be maintained as a school for blacks.Jarvis opened its doors as Jarvis Christian Institute, modeled after the Southern Christian Institute located west of Jackson in Edwards, Mississippi.
Current President:Â Michael J. Sorrell
Official website:www.pqc.edu
