Word: tougaloo
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...Tougaloo College, in Tougaloo, Mississippi, is like many of the other private black colleges in the South. It is small (enrollment is about 700), but because it is one of the better black colleges in the South its influence is out of proportion with its size. Like all administrators at good schools, the administrators at Tougaloo are proud of their position. Fifteen minutes from the state capital in downtown Jackson, Tougaloo's campus is set off to itself, and you easily forget that the state capital is only fifteen minutes away by car. The campus is an interesting mixture...
Once we proved to the staff that we were not radical agitators nor ambitious incompetents, we began to talk with the students. At Tougaloo, as with all but one of the other places, I was given free room in the Upward Bound men's dormitory. Having only a budget of $1.50 per day for room and board, this also meant that I could get to know the students better than if I had stayed in a motel and had arranged formal interview hours...
...nation's Afro-American specialists are now teaching at small black colleges in the South, any success that Harvard has in attracting black professors will come at the expense of a debilitating brain drain from the Southern colleges. The attrition may be fatal for colleges like Miles and Tougaloo; and for many Southern blacks, those colleges are the only educational openings available...
...program that he calls a "poor man's Antioch plan," in which students are helped to find course-related summer jobs, many of them in urban ghettos. His students are making the most of these new opportunities: five years ago, about the only career readily open to Tougaloo's graduates was public school teaching and 80% of them went into it; today only 40% become teachers, while 30% go on to graduate school and an equal number enter Government service...
Southern black colleges have never drawn significant financial support from local whites, Tougaloo least of all as a result of its long and honorable history as a hotbed of civil rights activity. "The police in Jackson have often referred to our students as 'them smart niggers from Tougaloo,' " says Owens, and only two years before he took over the presidency, there was a serious effort in the Mississippi legislature to revoke Tougaloo's charter "in the public interest." Owens has no intention of caving in. Says he: "We could do it the other .way, give...