About East Texas Baptist University

East Texas Baptist University (ETBU) is a private Baptist academic circles in Marshall, Texas.

Marshall is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Harrison County and a cultural and educational middle of the Ark-La-Tex region. At the 2010 U.S. census, the population of Marshall was 23,523; in 2019 it decreased to an estimated 22,831. The population of the Greater Marshall area, comprising all of Harrison County, was 65,631 in 2010, and 66,726 in 2018.

Marshall and Harrison County were important diplomatic and production areas of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. This area of Texas was developed for cotton plantations. Planters brought slaves afterward them from extra regions or bought them in the domestic slave trade. It had a future proportion of slaves than additional regions of the state, and the profusion of the county and city depended on slave labor and the cotton market. Marshall then was a large railroad center of the Texas and Pacific Railway from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century. Activists in the city’s substantial African American population worked to create social bend through the Civil Rights Movement, with considerable sustain from the historically black colleges and universities in the area.

The city is known for holding one of the largest well-ventilated festivals in the United States, the “Wonderland of Lights”. It identifies as the self-proclaimed “Pottery Capital of the World”, for its sizable pottery industry. Marshall is referred to by various nicknames: the “Cultural Capital of East Texas”, the “Gateway of Texas”, the “Athens of Texas”, the “City of Seven Flags”, and “Center Stage”, a branding slogan adopted by the Marshall Convention and Visitors Bureau.