Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-01-04
Negro Parents Pay Increased Cost Of
HIGH Education In Out-of-State College
AIcorn Should
Serve More Needs
OF Community

in the December 18th edition of
the Jackson Advocate which
charged conditions at Alcorn Col
lege, the only State supported
school for higher learning for Ne
groes, with being the worst in 20
years and the subsequent COM
ment regarding the story widely
published in the daily press of the
State and comments by members
of the State board for institutions
of higher learning, further COM
ments reaching the office of the
Jackson Advocate from parents,
teachers, alumni and prospective
students representing various sec
tons of the State charge the pres
emit program and conditions at AL
corn College with driving students
to other State institutions: with
forcing Negro parents of the State
to pay a higher and increased cost
for higher education for their chill
dren in out-of-state Colleges and
with failing to serve the more Vi
tai needs for higher education of
the Negro population of the State.
In commenting on the article,
students from Alcorn College at
home for the holiday season praise
the article for bringing to light
some of the conditions at the Col
lege but cited its failure to men
ton the fact tina THE dormitories
and dining halls are plagued with
/ bed bugs, flies and reaches and
that toilet facilities are at such
a low ebb that the students are
forced to go out into the woods
to relieve themselves.
In referring to the failure of
the College to serve adequately
/ the higher educational needs of
the Negro population of the State
as the only State supported fnsti-
tuition for higher learning for Ne
groes, it was pointed out that
while there are less than so Ne
gro Doctors in the State, so Den
lists, a comparably small num-
Der of trained Nurses, about one
half dozen Negro Lawyer with
increasing needs on the part of
Negro business for bookkeepers,
accountants and stenographers, the
accomplishing of Liberal Arts
| subjects leaves the College with
out anything like adequate pre-
medical, dental, nursing, legal or
business courses. H. I'LL 81
The lack of a pre-medical or
dental and nursing courses at the
college is pointed out as being
particularly alarming, due to the
fact that there is now in the
State only so Negro Doctors, 80
Dentists and a limited number of
trained Nurses to serve the health
needs of more than one million,
one hundred twenty-five thousand
Negro population of the State.
Those who complete these courses
in out-of-state schools usually en-
ter practice in other states.
A prominent Alcorn Alumnus
in stating that the program and
conditions at the college is fare
ing students to other state schools
and thereby forcing parents to
pay an increasing cost for higher
education for their children, point
ed out that from Jackson alone,
there are sixteen enrolled at Ten
nessee State College. The incras-
! ing cost to parents is apparent
in railroad fare and other expen-
ses and in some cases higher cost
of tuition to maintain their child
ren in schools outside tie State.
A prominent Alcorn AlumniuS
/, in stating that the program and
conditions at the College is fore
ing students to other stats schools
and thereby forcing parents to
pay an increasing cost for higher
education for their children, poir-
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