I spent a week there in the ‘70s for a conference The President at that time was Dr. Peoples who spent a year as our Neighbor in The Twilight Zone when he was on Sabbatical. His son and my Brother became good buds. I had the utmost respect for him and he and Mr. Obra Hackett, treated me like family. A wonderful week of learning and friendship.
Rod Paige, who was Secretary of Education in George W. Bush’s first term, and who was in the classroom in Florida with Bush when he was informed of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center in 2001, is an alumnus and served as Acting President before the recently-resigned President was hired.
I didn’t know Dr. Peoples, but I knew men like him. Those sort would be find today.
Dr Peoples deserved that respect
Black colleges even is underfunded compared to Ole Miss
Were rigorous and diligent and their degrees mattered
Tougaloo
Itta Beena
Alcorn which frankly although isolated is a beautiful old campus with historical buildings my family renovated fifty years ago....I’ve still got some of the old bricks and railing in my barn
The old Windsor ruins stairs are there at the chape recycled after the fire.Windsor is close to Lormanl....I was there two years ago
Blacks colleges worked.....I know a white lady taught at Jackson State....she did not suffer fools gladly and quite a woman.
She died last year....got her PhD at 50