Founded in 1906 by T. A. Howard, I. W. Howell, L. W. Perry, Horace Williams, W. A. Garner, B. A. Howell, J. A. Douglass, E. M. Howell, J. S. Johnson, and C. H. Land, the Louisiana Colored Chautauqua offered summer programs for education and cultural interests and declined after the local college developed.