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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...
...F.D.P. as too radical, and only two of its candidates are given any chance of election. The strongest challengers are Lawrence Guyot, 26, F.D.P. Mississippi chairman, who filed as an opponent against Congressman William Colmer, 76, and the Rev. Edwin King, 30, a white chaplain at predominantly Negro Tougaloo College, who is taking on Representative John Bell Williams...
...benefit of those who become incensed by what they see as merely personal views, the signers of this letter are supporters of civil rights, SNCC, LBJ, academic freedom in Tougaloo, Miss. and in Cambridge, Mass. Also, we are seniors who will not be affected personally by future trends in RGA. C. Sheridan Murphy '65 Caroline D. Warner...
...education. Son of an Acme, N.C., factory fireman, he worked at railroad jobs to finance his chemistry and French studies at Richmond's Virginia Union University. He later earned a master's degree in psychology at the University of Michigan. He taught at Mississippi's Tougaloo College and for 13 years at Leland College in Baker, La., becoming its president. When he first saw Selma U., Owens recalls, "I looked, turned around and left." Then, after deciding that the president's job would be "a real challenge -and I have been foolish enough to do things...