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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...
...students plan to teach, obtain study grants for Tougaloo faculty members, and possibly do research to help underprivileged residents of the area...
This year, the program will be held only at Tougaloo and only during the summer session, but the Harvard group hopes that it will eventually spread to other campuses in the South and operate throughout the year. Mudd said that students from nearby campuses may benefit from the Tougaloo program this year...
...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...