Coahoma Community College

Coahoma Community College is a community college and HBCU located in Coahoma County, Mississippi, approximately four miles north of the city of Clarksdale. The 99-acre campus lies in an agrarian setting along Clarksdale-Friars Point Road near the Mississippi River. Establishing Coahoma County Agricultural High School in 1924, Coahoma County became the first county in Mississippi to provide an agricultural high school for Negroes under the then existing “separate but equal” doctrine for education. The junior college curriculum was added in 1949, and the name of the institution was... changed to Coahoma Junior College and Agricultural High School. During the first two years , the junior college program was conducted by one fulltime college director-teacher and a sufficient number of part-time teachers from the high school division, A full-time dean and college faculty were employed the third year. During the first year of operation , Coahoma Junior College was supported entirely by county funds.
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