Charles P. Adams (college president)

Charles Phillip Adams (July 22, 1873 – June 27, 1961) was an American academic administrator who served a 35-year term as the founding president of the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, which later became Grambling State University.

[2] Adams was thinking of attending law school, but Washington convinced him that it would be more worthwhile to set up an educational institution for black people.

[1] To help generate funds for the construction of a classroom building and dormitory, Adams raised $700 from the sale of his share of the family farm.

Adams was supposed to be paid $40 per month plus board, but he did not receive a paycheck from the financially strapped institution for about four years.

Some people at the school wanted to redirect the institution's focus toward preparing Baptist ministers, an idea that Adams did not support.