HBCUs in this group were aided by the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Church, which founded and/or supported Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia (1869); Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina (1869); Shaw University (renamed Rust College) in Holly Springs, Mississippi (1866); Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina (1873); and Wiley College in Marshall, Texas (1873). Those founded and/or supported by the American Baptist Home Mission Society were Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina (1865); Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina (1870); Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia (1867); Jackson College in Jackson, Mississippi (1877); and Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia (1865).