How the Thompson Institute Transformed Black Education & Lives In North Carolina

How the Thompson Institute Transformed Black Education & Lives In North Carolina

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer In the years following the Civil War, when the promise of freedom demanded real institutions to sustain it, the Thompson Institute emerged in Lumberton, North Carolina, as one of the most important educational lights for African Americans in the state. Born from former slaves, the origins of the Thompson Institute trace back to the founding of the Lumber River Missionary Baptist Association in 1877 in Fair Bluff. F…