April 27, 1891

Floyd Brown was born in Stampley, Mississippi, the second of ten children born to African-American tenant farmers. Brown founded the Fargo Agricultural School in Monroe County in 1919 to provide the equivalent of elementary and secondary vocational education for black students. The school was for both day and residential students and was modeled after the Tuskegee Institute, which Brown attended, where students learned practical skills intended to help them achieve success and economic security.