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Although some Philadelphia political leaders may doubt Kenyatta's dedication to civil rights, at least the FBI did not doubt his potential for causing racial trouble in 1969. In April of that year, three FBI agents sent a phony threat letter to Kenyatta while he was at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, working with the Jackson Human Rights project. The letter--which was signed by the "Tougaloo College Defense Committee" and approved by FBI headquarters under the bureau's Counter-Intelligence Program against "Black nationalist" groups--stated that the group disapproved of Kenyatta's activities at Tougaloo. "You are directed...
Haunted Grotto. The evening was an emphatic justification of the aims of the Jackson company. Until the founding of Opera/South, there was little opportunity in Mississippi for blacks to sing opera. The backing of three Jackson-area black colleges-Jackson State, Tougaloo and Utica Junior-has made a musical theater workable. Students sing in the chorus, build sets and fashion costumes. Bayou Legend's simple but effective one-piece set-a double-trunked oak tree that for the Act II duet between Bazile and Aurore turns magically into a haunted grotto-required only $2,000 of the company...
...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...