JC Smith Seminary & ITC (Interdenominational Theological Center) Website Link:  http://www.pcusa.org/seminaries/pdf/johnson.pdf  or                            http://www.itc.edu/

Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary is one of the ten theological institutions of the Presbyterian
Church (USA). It was established on April 7, 1867, as a part of the Freedmen's College of North Carolina,
subsequently named Biddle Memorial Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1923, Mrs. Jane Berry Smith
of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, generously endowed the institution and constructed several buildings on the
seventy-five acre campus in honor of her husband, Johnson C. Smith. In recognition of this gift, the
Board of Trustees voted on March 1, 1923, to change the name of the Institute to Johnson C. Smith University.

The Seminary operated as a department of the University, graduating its first class of three in 1872. In 1969,
the religion department moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta as Johnson C. Smith Theological
Seminary. Through official action of the Johnson C. Smith University Board of Trustees and the 182nd General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Seminary became a part of the consortium of the six Protestant
seminaries known as the Interdenominational Theological Center.