The Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, in partnership with the Georgia Historical Society, the USC Center for Civil Rights and Research, and Augusta University’s History, Anthropology, and Philosophy Department will unveil the state historic marker in honor of Reverend William Jefferson White.
He served as an educational agent for the Freedmen’s Bureau and principal founder of Harmony Baptist Church and the Augusta Baptist Institute (now Morehouse College). In 1880 White helped establish Augusta’s Ware High School and the Georgia Baptist Newspaper.
