Brewster, William Herbert

Brewster’s attendance at Memphis’s Howe Collegiate Institute under the tutelage of Reverend T. O. Fuller and Reverend Sutton Griggs exemplified his commitment to education. Brewster continued his study as a student at the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, enrolling as one of the first black students in 1919. Brewster accomplished course work in theology, Shakespearean literature, theory of law, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, among other subjects. He even...