ABSTRACT

In its first summer the Tougaloo Enrichment Program at Mary Holmes Junior College in West Point, Mississippi, enrolled two hundred black students from the delta counties of the state. The students were either already enrolled or about to enroll in integrated high schools. The faculty was drawn chiefly from high schools and colleges in the South; the tutorial staff, responsible for most of the teaching, consisted of undergraduates from two Massachusetts colleges (Smith and Amherst), plus several students from Negro colleges in the South. The following is from a journal kept during a short visit.