Campbell College (Mississippi)

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The boys' dormitory, c. 1910

J. P. Campbell College (1890–1964) was a private

African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church.[2] In its final years, the early 1960s, it enrolled three hundred students.[3]

History

Founded in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1890, it was relocated to Jackson, Mississippi in 1898.[2] Perry Wilbon Howard II served as its president from 1899 until 1900.[4] M. M. Ponton became president of the college in 1907.[5]

Sometime after

Black school was absorbed in to Campbell College.[6]

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.[7] Robert M. Stevens was then president of the college.[8]

In October 1961, students from

Burglund High School marched through downtown McComb in solidarity with Brenda Travis, a fifteen-year-old student who had been arrested and sentenced for participating in a voter registration drive and sit-ins. Around 1,600 students were arrested as they prayed on the steps of City Hall. Berglund's principal required students to sign a pledge to avoid participation in further protests in order to attend school. In response, Campbell College offered Berglund students who refused an opportunity to enroll.[3][2]

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission monitored Campbell College's civil rights activities, placing its president Robert Stevens and dean of religion Charles Jones on its "trouble-makers list."[3] In February 1962, conservative members of the college's board of trustees and the AME Church filed for injunction to remove Stevens, Jones, and other administrators from their duties. The Chancery Court allowed the board of trustees to be reconstituted, but the new board reinstated Steven and Jones four months later.[3] Civil rights activism continued on campus after 1962, but the college and its sponsor the Eighth Episcopal District lost money in the process, as well as in a separate land transaction.

In 1964, the state of Mississippi seized the college by

Civil Rights Movement."[3]

References

  1. ^ Sanders, Sheren (December 25, 2018). "Campbell College (1890–1964) •".
  2. ^ a b c d "Campbell College". Mississippi Encyclopedia.
  3. ^ a b c d e f 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.
  4. ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=RFZ2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=john+dalphin+howard&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpx7C58-SFAxXTm7AFHc2DA_8Q6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=john%20dalphin%20howard&f=false
  5. ^ Hamilton, Green Polonius (June 19, 1911). "Beacon Lights of the Race". E.H. Clarke & Brother – via pages 117 to 123 (author:Green Polonius Hamilton).
  6. ISBN 978-0-8028-2785-2
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  7. ^ "Campbell College – MS Civil Rights Project". Archived from the original on June 22, 2020. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  8. ^ Education, Task Force Committee on Education (1961). Report on Education Submitted to President-elect Kennedy. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 120.

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