[3] It was established under the name the Rust Institute, as a school to train African American teachers in Alabama in 1865.

[7] A two story brick building opened at the corner of Franklin Street and Townsend Avenue in Huntsville, Alabama in 1865.

Madison C. B. Mason, working alongside the Freedmen's Aid Society, and the Methodist Episcopal Church.

[10] Jay Samuel Stowell wrote about the school in "Methodist Adventures in Negro Education" (1922).

[12] Margaret Walker (née Alexander) was born on the campus in 1915, where her father Rev.