Nansemond Collegiate Institute

Nansemond Collegiate Institute (1905–1939) was a private elementary and high school for African American students in Suffolk (formerly Nansemond County), Virginia, United States.

William Washington Gaines, the pastor at the First Colored Baptist Church in Nansemond County (now Suffolk), founded the school as the first high school for African American students in the county.

[2] The brick campus building was completed in 1927, at the cost of USD $25,000.

[6] In 1931, Huskerson led a large fundraising effort to pay off the building and aid in school expenses.

[5] The Nansemond Collegiate Institute closed in 1939, after a series of fires and the building no longer exists.

William A. Huskerson
W. A. Huskerson, principal from 1926 to 1939