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It operated under the direction of the Marion County Board of Public
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counties. Three representatives from each county made up the college's advisory committee.
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decision of 1954. At the time, the closest public college that would accept negroes was
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In 1966 the institution was merged with
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principal/presidents, in 1961 he became full-time president of the college.
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Toby Hunt, "Hampton Junior
College: The Excellence Continues",
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The
Magnificent Twelve: Florida's Black Junior Colleges
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It began operations using the facilities of the black
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161:Booker T. Washington Junior College
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1207:Education in Levy County, Florida
240:African American Sites in Florida
1151:Southwestern Athletic Conference
16:Junior college in Ocala, Florida
1217:Florida's black junior colleges
1146:Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
1141:Florida's Black Junior Colleges
1119:Thurgood Marshall School of Law
1104:Howard University School of Law
1227:1958 establishments in Florida
1114:Southern University Law Center
1007:Mississippi Industrial College
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1093:David A. Clarke School of Law
1017:Mount Hermon Female Seminary
759:Morehouse School of Medicine
917:Central Mississippi College
689:Florida Memorial University
109:Brown v. Board of Education
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149:College of Central Florida
114:Florida A&M University
1136:Atlanta University Center
242:, Pineapple Press, 2007,
1166:HBCU Athletic Conference
522:Mississippi Valley State
171:Roosevelt Junior College
517:Maryland, Eastern Shore
1022:New Orleans University
1002:Miner Teachers College
987:Lincoln Junior College
819:Southwestern Christian
542:North Carolina Central
537:North Carolina A&T
181:Jackson Junior College
92:Hampton Junior College
20:Hampton Junior College
814:Simmons College (Ky.)
512:Lincoln, Pennsylvania
328:Smith, pp. 57 and 75.
176:Carver Junior College
30:Howard Junior College
992:Louisville Municipal
907:Booker T. Washington
572:Southern–New Orleans
562:South Carolina State
547:Prairie View A&M
452:Elizabeth City State
166:Gibbs Junior College
864:Virginia University
616:Winston-Salem State
611:West Virginia State
577:Southern–Shreveport
407:Arkansas–Pine Bluff
238:Kevin M. McCarthy,
100:Florida Legislature
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1062:Terrell Law School
884:Xavier (Louisiana)
457:Fayetteville State
135:Howard High School
116:, 175 miles away.
104:Separate but equal
102:, to show that a "
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967:Immanuel Lutheran
927:Concordia Alabama
507:Lincoln, Missouri
467:Fort Valley State
319:McCarthy, p. 149.
289:Ocala Star-Banner
268:Smith, pp. 71-72.
199:Walter L. Smith,
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962:Haygood Seminary
719:Johnson C. Smith
714:Jarvis Christian
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482:Harris–Stowe
442:Coppin State
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422:Bowie State
26:Former name
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784:Paul Quinn
437:Coahoma CC
248:1561643858
209:1885066015
187:References
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1032:Rosenwald
1027:Roosevelt
952:Guadalupe
839:Talladega
754:Morehouse
724:Knoxville
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982:Kittrell
869:Voorhees
854:Tuskegee
849:Tougaloo
829:Stillman
649:Benedict
567:Southern
502:Langston
487:Hinds CC
155:See also
68:Location
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977:Johnson
972:Jackson
957:Hampton
893:Defunct
824:Spelman
774:Oakwood
744:Meharry
694:Hampton
674:Dillard
664:Claflin
654:Bennett
625:Private
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79:Florida
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879:Wiley
804:Selma
779:Paine
749:Miles
634:Allen
73:Ocala
56:–1966
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799:Rust
729:Lane
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370:List
244:ISBN
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125:Levy
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