Word: tougaloo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GEORGE A. OWENS, 49, TOUGALOO COLLEGE, Tougaloo, Miss. (712 students). The son of a sharecropper, Owens put himself through Tougaloo (one job: chauffeuring the president's wife), earned a master's degree in business administration at Columbia on the G.I. Bill...
...returned to Mississippi and became Tougaloo's business manager, rose to the presidency in 1965. "I took over," says Owens, "at a time when new opportunities for Negroes in American life were really coming about. We knew we had to educate our students for a new day of equal opportunity...
This was the road that Dr. Robert Smith, 30, followed from a Mississippi hamlet to Howard. It led him back almost to where he had started. One of twelve children, Smith graduated from all-Negro Tougaloo College in 1953. The state then subsidized Smith at Howard by paying the school $1,500 a year for his tuition and making him a loan of $5,000, "forgivable" at the rate of $1,000 for each year he spends practicing in the state. Says Smith: "Mississippi would rather underwrite the education of Negroes out of state than let them into...
Monro is a trustee of Phillips Academy and Tougaloo College in Mississippi, a former trustee of the College Entrance Examination board, the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students. While Dean of the College, Monro has also served on the admissions board. "I plan to continue some kind of admissions work with Harvard while I am at Miles," he said...
Philadelphia and Canton generated enough headlines and shocking TV footage to convert the march into a national cause celebre-and the celebrities began streaming toward Jackson. Comedian Dick Gregory, Showman Sammy Davis Jr. and Actor Marlon Brando turned up in Tougaloo to perform for the marchers the night before their seven-mile trek into Jackson. Meredith, recovered from his wounds, also flew back but at first refused to have anything to do with the main body of marchers, with the cryptic comment: "There have been some shenanigans going on that I don't like." In the end, Meredith decided...