Campbell College

J. P. Campbell College (1890–1964) was a private junior college in Jackson, Mississippi, focused on educating African American students. It was affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. In its final years, the early 1960s, it enrolled three hundred students. History Founded in Vicksburg in 1890, it moved to Jackson in 1898. Perry W. Howard served as its president from 1899 until 1900. M. M. Ponton became president of the college in 1907. Sometime after World War II (after 1945), Lampton College of Alexandria, Louisiana (founded as the Delhi Institute of Delhi, Louisiana) , an A.M.E. church–affiliated Black school was absorbed in to Campbell College. On April 8, 1960, Black civil rights activist Medgar Evers 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.