Campbell College (Mississippi)
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Campbell College (1890 - 1964) was a junior college in Mississippi focused on educating Black youth.[1] It was affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church.[2] In its final years, the early 1960s, it enrolled three hundred students.[3]
Founded in Vicksburg, it moved to Jackson in 1898.[2] M. M. Ponton served as president of the college[when?].[4]
On April 8, 1960, Black civil rights activist Medgar Evers announced the Easter boycott of downtown Jackson merchants from a press conference at the college. Charles A. Jones, Campbell College's dean of religion, led the boycott campaign.[5]
In 1961, during the civil rights movement, it allowed students boycotting Burglund High School to enroll. The state of Mississippi seized the college the same year and it closed down a few years later.[2]
References
- ^ Sanders, Sheren (December 25, 2018). "Campbell College (1890-1964) •".
- ^ a b c "Campbell College". Mississippi Encyclopedia.
- ^ Williamson, Joy Ann (2017). ""Quacks, Quirks, Agitators, and Communists": Private Black Colleges and the Limits of Institutional Autonomy". History of Higher Education Annual: 2003-2004. London: Routledge. pp. 58–63.
- ^ Hamilton, Green Polonius (June 19, 1911). "Beacon Lights of the Race". E.H. Clarke & Brother – via pages 117 to 123 (author:Green Polonius Hamilton).
- ^ "Campbell College – MS Civil Rights Project". Retrieved 2020-06-19.
External links
- A 1908 - 1909 college catalogue is available online from Emory University.
See also
- Brenda Travis, student and Burglund expelled and imprisoned for her civil rights protests