Word: tougaloo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tougaloo Southern Christian College in Tougaloo, Miss., will be the site this summer of a pilot project of assistance to Southern Negro colleges organized by a group of Harvard graduate students...
...Mississippi, only one Negro campus (Tougaloo Southern Christian) is accredited, and the dismal state of Jackson's J. P. Campbell College sums up the problem. Campbell's shabby plant is no match for the average Northern high school. For its 300 mostly country-raised students, Campbell boasts a library of 3,000 books. It operates on a budget of $131,000, about half provided by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. For the rest, says President Robert M. Stevens, "we just have to do a lot of hustlin'." Now gifts are vanishing. Campbell is solidly behind civil rights...