Brewer Normal Institute

Brewer Normal Institute (1872–1970)[1] was a segregated private school for African-Americans in Greenwood, South Carolina.

The American Missionary Association (AMA) opened Brewer Normal Institute in 1872 as a boarding school on East Cambridge Street.

[5][9][10] From 1945 to 1969, Benjamin James Sanders Jr. served as the school’s principal; he had been initially hired a science teacher starting in 1928.

[3][6] The New York Public Library has a 1909 photograph in their archives of Brewer Normal Institute students picking cotton at the school farm.

[12] The Emerald Triangle Museum & Rail Center exhibit included photographs and yearbook page from the school as well as images of the hospital.