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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. 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.
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monitored Campbell College's civil rights activities, placing its president Robert Stevens and dean of religion Charles Jones on its "trouble-makers list." In February 1962, conservative members of the college's board of trustees and the AME Church filed for injunction to remove Stevens, Jones, and
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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. Robert M. Stevens was then president of the college.
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in Jackson, Mississippi, focused on educating African American students. It was affiliated with the
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In 1964, the state of Mississippi seized the college by
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Education, Task Force Committee on Education (1961).
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J. P. Campbell College

junior college
African Methodist Episcopal
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi
Perry Wilbon Howard II
M. M. Ponton
World War II
Lampton College
Alexandria
Delhi
Black school
civil rights
Medgar Evers
Burglund High School
McComb
Brenda Travis
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
eminent domain
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Civil Rights Movement
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