African American professor Joseph E. Herriford named the Garrison School at 219 Henry Street, Chillicothe Missouri after the abolitionist leader and social reformer William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) in 1890. William Lloyd Garrison was a newspaper writer and editor of the Journal of the Times, Genius of Universal Emancipation, and The Liberator, dedicated to the oppression of slavery and women's suffrage. In 1834, he promoted education for African American children and adults in the New England States, challenging state laws during slavery.