Coahoma Community College - Coahoman Yearbook (Clarksdale, MS)

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Historical Sketch Coahoma County was among the first of the counties in Mississippi to provide agricultural high schools for Negroes. In 1924, County Superintendent P. F. Williams proposed the organization of a school system which would include a number of elementary and junior high schools and one central agricultural high school. Upon adoption of the proposal by the Board of Supervisors in that year, Coahoma County Agricultural High School was established. Mr. M. L. Strange served as the first superintendent of Coahoma County Agricultural High School during the 1924-25 term. In the years which followed , four other men have headed the institution: Mr. J. H. Moseley, four years: Mr. J. W. Addison and Mr. J. B. Wright, eight years each, and Mr. B. F. McLaurin, 21 years. The efforts to establish a Junior College that would serve basically a non-white clientele were enhanced by the all around support of Mr. L. L. Bryson, who was Superintendent of Coahoma County schools during the formative years of the Junior College. Mr. B. F. McLaurin headed the institution from the 1945-46 school year until the junior college program was added in 1949: then he served as president of the newly founded junior college until 1966 . After the junior college was added , the name of the institution was changed to Coahoma Jun- ior College and Agricultural High School. The incumbent, Mr. J . E. Miller, has headed the institu- tion since 1966. The first three years of the college program were conducted by one full-time College Director- teacher, Mrs. Zee A . Barron, and a sufficient number of part-time teachers from the high school division. A full-time Dean, Miss M. G. Whiteside, and College faculty were employed the third year. Miss Whiteside served as Dean until 1973. Mr. Frank W. Gambrell, Jr. , began his reign as Dean in July, 1973. Mr. Gambrell was also the second full-time college teacher. At present there are fifty-six full-time teachers in the college and forty full-time teachers in the high school.