Dr. Herman H. Long Gravesite
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Dr. Herman H. Long Gravesite

Talladega, Talladega County, Alabama, USA

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    Coordinates: 33.43233, -86.11414
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An Alabama Historical Commission plaque in front of DeForest Chapel at Talladega College recounts two former slaves, Thomas Tarrant and William Savery, from Talladega pledged to provide a school for former slave's children while attending the freedmen's convention in Mobile during November of 1865. They returned home and built a one-room schoolhouse with salvaged lumber. General Wager Swayne, chairman of the Freedmen's Bureau, then persuaded the American Missionary Association to purchase the nearby Baptist Male Academy building for their use in 1867. The antebellum academy had been built with slave labor and used as a prison for captured federal soldiers during the war. "Swayne School", chartered as Talladega College in 1869, was the first institution dedicated to the educational needs of blacks in the state and currently has a 50-acre main campus encompassing over forty buildings.

Dr. Herman H. Long was president of Talladega College from 1965 until his death in 1976. While presiding at Talladega College he also served as president of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) during 1970-1975. An iconic motto adopted by the UNCF in 1972 was "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste".

Listed in "Talladega County, Alabama Tombstone Inscriptions of All Known Cemeteries 1700's to 1988", Vol. I, c. 1989 by Joseph W. & Francis S. Upchurch.




An Alabama Historical Commission plaque in front of DeForest Chapel at Talladega College recounts two former slaves, Thomas Tarrant and William Savery, from Talladega pledged to provide a school for former slave's children while attending the freedmen's convention in Mobile during November of 1865. They returned home and built a one-room schoolhouse with salvaged lumber. General Wager Swayne, chairman of the Freedmen's Bureau, then persuaded the American Missionary Association to purchase the nearby Baptist Male Academy building for their use in 1867. The antebellum academy had been built with slave labor and used as a prison for captured federal soldiers during the war. "Swayne School", chartered as Talladega College in 1869, was the first institution dedicated to the educational needs of blacks in the state and currently has a 50-acre main campus encompassing over forty buildings.

Dr. Herman H. Long was president of Talladega College from 1965 until his death in 1976. While presiding at Talladega College he also served as president of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) during 1970-1975. An iconic motto adopted by the UNCF in 1972 was "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste".

Listed in "Talladega County, Alabama Tombstone Inscriptions of All Known Cemeteries 1700's to 1988", Vol. I, c. 1989 by Joseph W. & Francis S. Upchurch.




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