Campbell College (Mississippi)

[6] 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.

[3][2] The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission monitored Campbell College's civil rights activities, placing its president Robert Stevens and dean of religion Charles Jones on its "trouble-makers list.

"[3] In February 1962, conservative members of the college's board of trustees and the AME Church filed for injunction to remove Stevens, Jones, and other administrators from their duties.

[3] 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.

[2] Scholar Jay Ann Williamson wrote that, "Legislators never called it an act of retribution, but Campbell's place in the Jackson movement clearly influenced the decision.