Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Gibbs Junior College was created in 1957 by the Pinellas County Board of Public Instruction to serve African American students in Tampa and surrounding areas. It was the second of Florida's African-American junior colleges (Booker T. Washington Junior College was the first). It was named for the minister and abolitionist Jonathan C. Gibbs, who opened a private school for freed slaves after the Civil War, and was later Florida's Secretary of State (1868-1872) and then Superintendent of Public Instruction, the first African-American member of the Florida Cabinet. It opened with 245 students and in its last year had 901 students. During its first year it used the facilities of Gibbs High School, but in 1958 it moved into its own adjacent facility. It was the first African-American junior college to become fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1966, during the move toward school desegregation, like Florida's other black junior colleges the college was abruptly closed as an independent institution, and placed under the supervision of St. Petersburg Junior College (now St. Petersburg College), which the following year closed Gibbs' campus.In 1992, St. Petersburg Junior College named its St. Petersburg campus (unrelated to the facilities of Gibbs Junior College) the Gibbs campus."@en }
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- Gibbs_Junior_College abstract "Gibbs Junior College was created in 1957 by the Pinellas County Board of Public Instruction to serve African American students in Tampa and surrounding areas. It was the second of Florida's African-American junior colleges (Booker T. Washington Junior College was the first). It was named for the minister and abolitionist Jonathan C. Gibbs, who opened a private school for freed slaves after the Civil War, and was later Florida's Secretary of State (1868-1872) and then Superintendent of Public Instruction, the first African-American member of the Florida Cabinet. It opened with 245 students and in its last year had 901 students. During its first year it used the facilities of Gibbs High School, but in 1958 it moved into its own adjacent facility. It was the first African-American junior college to become fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1966, during the move toward school desegregation, like Florida's other black junior colleges the college was abruptly closed as an independent institution, and placed under the supervision of St. Petersburg Junior College (now St. Petersburg College), which the following year closed Gibbs' campus.In 1992, St. Petersburg Junior College named its St. Petersburg campus (unrelated to the facilities of Gibbs Junior College) the Gibbs campus.".
- Q21020904 abstract "Gibbs Junior College was created in 1957 by the Pinellas County Board of Public Instruction to serve African American students in Tampa and surrounding areas. It was the second of Florida's African-American junior colleges (Booker T. Washington Junior College was the first). It was named for the minister and abolitionist Jonathan C. Gibbs, who opened a private school for freed slaves after the Civil War, and was later Florida's Secretary of State (1868-1872) and then Superintendent of Public Instruction, the first African-American member of the Florida Cabinet. It opened with 245 students and in its last year had 901 students. During its first year it used the facilities of Gibbs High School, but in 1958 it moved into its own adjacent facility. It was the first African-American junior college to become fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1966, during the move toward school desegregation, like Florida's other black junior colleges the college was abruptly closed as an independent institution, and placed under the supervision of St. Petersburg Junior College (now St. Petersburg College), which the following year closed Gibbs' campus.In 1992, St. Petersburg Junior College named its St. Petersburg campus (unrelated to the facilities of Gibbs Junior College) the Gibbs campus.".