Mississippi Industrial College

After desegregation of community colleges in the mid-20th century, it had trouble competing and eventually closed in 1982.

Intended to train students for agriculture and trades, the school was located on a 120-acre (49 ha) campus.

According to the Times-Picayune, then president D. C. Potts told a meeting of the Mississippi Colored Methodist Conference in reference to this that "an institution [MIC] for which the people were sacrificing ought to be able to help more than the few students who attended its session.

"[3] After the desegregation of Mississippi community colleges, many students chose to go to other schools.

[1] In November 1999 the Mississippi Industrial College Alumni Association, Inc. (MICAAI) was organized in order to preserve the campus and buildings, which had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.