a third school at the home of Reverend Peter Johnson. His secular educational career continued after the end of slavery. On January 12, 1867, White was appointed educational agent of the Freedmen's Bureau by Oliver O. Howard, and organized schools for black children in Georgia. He fought against illegal black curfews and helped register blacks to vote. He organized educational societies and worked to obtain land and build schools. White left the Bureau on January 1, 1869 and on May 1 that year was appointed assistant assessor of revenue by Edwin Belcher. He continued to work for the internal revenue service in different roles until January 1, 1880 when he resigned to give his full attention to his religious callings. Also in 1869, he was also chosen trustee of the newly established Atlanta University. White established the Augusta Institute in Springfield Baptist Church in 1867 and served as one of the trustees there as well. White was among those involved in the moving of the Augusta Institute to Atlanta and the change of name to the Atlanta baptist Seminary, and continued to serve on the board of trustees. He was a longtime supporter of Ware High School for blacks in Augusta and was deeply hurt when the Richmond County Board of Education closed the school in 1897 to reapportion money for white elementary education. He was also a co-founder and trustee at the Spelman Seminary which formed in 1882. Ministry White was baptized on October 7, 1855 at Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, on September 19, 1858 he was licensed to exhort, and on February 16, 1862 he was licensed to preach. He organized a Sabbath School on January 8, 1859, and he would serve as superintendent of the school for nine years. On April 1, 1866 he was ordained, and he began holding meetings on June 16, 1867 in what was known as McKinley's grove on a farm owned by Mary Bouyer McKinley and presided by Rev. George Barnes. On May 10, 1868, White and six others organized the Harmony Baptist Church on a lot next to McKinley's grove which they had bought from Mary McKinley. On the first Sunday of July, 1869, he officially became pastor of Harmony Baptist Church, a church whose congregation had grown in part out of the Sabbath schools he led. White also organized Watery Branch Baptist Church and Simonia Baptist Church elsewhere