Eastman Business College

At the height of its success, the school was one of the largest commercial colleges in the United States.

Rather than merely being a theoretical school, students gained practical experience in the business arts by actually performing the tasks that would be expected of them in their working careers, a novel approach at the time.

In addition, there was a school of penmanship, which prepared students to teach writing and pen art.

In 1905 S. V. Daniels, a 17-year-old from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands withdrew from the main college and transferred to the Harlem branch following the petition of 160 southern students alleging that he was partially of African descent.

[citation needed] During its most successful period in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Eastman was one of the largest commercial schools in the United States.