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...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...
...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...
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...
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...