Dickson v. Wilson

The Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention of the State of Texas is a corporation organized to promote missionary effort and Christian education among the colored people, under the auspices of the Baptist churches of this state, and to co-operate financially and otherwise with the American Baptist Home Mission Society in its missionary and educational work for the colored people in the state of Texas.

The corporation is authorized to own, and does own, lands .upon which' are erected schools and an orphanage, and raises funds from voluntary gifts and from assessments paid by messengers…