Students walk to class past the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel as Morehouse College began its first day of classes on Aug. 17, 2016. This school year, the college will be celebrating its 150th anniversary in February. Morehouse was organized in 1867 as the Augusta Theological Institute and moved to Atlanta in 1879.  It was called the Atlanta Baptist Seminary and changed its name to the Atlanta Baptist College in 1897.  The name of the school changed again in 1913 when it became Morehouse College to honor Dr. Henry Lyman Morehouse, Corresponding Secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society and a longstanding supporter of the College.