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Motto | Ad Excellentiam (Latin) |
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Motto in English | In pursuit of excellence |
Type | Private liberal arts college |
Established | 1890 |
Religious affiliation | United Methodist Church |
Academic affiliations | IAMSCU ACS Annapolis Group |
Endowment | $117.9 million [1] |
President | Rob Pearigen |
Academic staff | 97 full-time |
Students | 700 [2] |
Location | , , United States 32°19′20″N90°10′46″W / 32.32222°N 90.17944°W |
Campus | Urban, 103 acres (42 ha) |
Colors | Purple and white |
Nickname | Majors and Lady Majors |
Sporting affiliations | NCAA Division III – SAA |
Mascot | The Millsaps Major [3] |
Website | www |
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Millsaps College is a private liberal arts college in Jackson, Mississippi. It was founded in 1890 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
The college was founded in 1889–90 by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps, who donated the land for the college and $50,000. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the Methodist Episcopal Church South organized the college's early fund-raising efforts. Both men were honored with halls named in their honor. Major Millsaps and his wife are interred in a tomb near the center of campus. The current United Methodist Church continues to affiliate with the college.
Millsaps was chosen as one of 131 sites for the training of Navy and Marine officers in the V-12 Navy College Training Program. In April 1943, 380 students arrived for the Navy V-12 program offering engineering, pre-medical and pre-dental training. Thereafter Millsaps began accepting students year-round for the program. A total of 873 officer candidates went through Millsaps between 1943 and 1945. [4]
Millsaps College students protested the shooting of Jackson State University student and civil rights worker Benjamin Brown, who was killed by police at a protest. The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission photographed the Millsaps protesters and identified them. The Sovereignty Commission spied on and conspired against civil rights activists and organized pressure and economic oppression of those who supported the civil rights movement in Mississippi.[ citation needed ]
Millsaps College professors were ranked among the best in the nation, according to The Princeton Review 's The Best 377 Colleges – 2013 Edition. The Millsaps faculty won praise in The Princeton Review's special Top 20 category: Professors Get High Marks, where Millsaps was ranked twelfth in the country. [13]
Millsaps is one of 40 schools in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives . [14]
The school's sports teams are known as the Majors and their colors are purple and white. They participate in the NCAA Division III and the Southern Athletic Association.
Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County. The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, a significant decline from 173,514, or 11.42%, since the 2010 census, representing the largest decline in population during the decade of any major U.S. city. Jackson is the anchor for the Jackson metropolitan statistical area, the largest metropolitan area located entirely in the state and the tenth-largest urban area in the Deep South. With a 2020 population of nearly 600,000, metropolitan Jackson is home to over one-fifth of Mississippi's population. The city sits on the Pearl River and is located in the greater Jackson Prairie region of Mississippi. Jackson is the only city in Mississippi with a population exceeding 100,000 people.
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Tougaloo College is a private historically black college in the Tougaloo area of Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and Christian Church. It was established in 1869 by New York–based Christian missionaries for the education of freed slaves and their offspring. From 1871 until 1892 the college served as a teachers' training school funded by the state of Mississippi. In 1998, the buildings of the old campus were added to the National Register of Historic Places. Tougaloo College has an extensive history of civic and social activism, including the Tougaloo Nine.
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William Belton Murrah (1852-1925) was an American bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1910.
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Frances Lucas is the president of Frances Lucas Consulting. Previously, she served as president of Millsaps College, becoming the first female head of the college in 2000.
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The Millsaps–Mississippi College rivalry is a sports rivalry between the Millsaps College Majors and the Mississippi College Choctaws. It chiefly manifests in the college football matchup, known as the Backyard Brawl as both schools are located near to Jackson, Mississippi. The colleges compete in Division III of the NCAA, Mississippi College in the American Southwest Conference (ASC) and Millsaps in the Southern Athletic Association (SAA).
The Millsaps Majors is the nickname for the sports teams of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi and their colors are purple and white. They participate in the NCAA's Division III and the Southern Athletic Association.
Ernst Borinski was a German-Jewish sociologist and intellectual, who contributed to undermining Jim Crow laws in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s.
Chokwe Lumumba was an American attorney, activist, and politician, who was affiliated with the black separatist organization Republic of New Afrika and served as its second vice president. He served as a human rights lawyer in Michigan and Mississippi. In 2013, after serving on the City Council, he was elected as Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
Nancy Plummer Faxon was an American soprano, music educator, and composer of organ music.
Martha Jane Bergmark is an attorney, civil rights advocate, and writer from Mississippi. Bergmark is best known for her work promoting civil justice through civil legal aid organizations at the local, state, and national level. Currently, Bergmark is executive director of Voices for Civil Justice. In 1978, she co-founded the Southeast Mississippi Legal Services to provide federally funded legal aid services in a nine county area.
Alney Dale Danks Jr. was an American attorney who served as the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, from 1977 to 1989.
William Green Millsaps was a preacher who served in the Mississippi legislature from 1875 to 1876.
The 1949 Millsaps Majors football team represented Millsaps College as a member of the Dixie Conference during the 1949 college football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Doby Bartling the Majors compiled an overall record of 2–5 with a mark of 0–4 in conference play, placing last out of six teams in the Dixie Conference. Millsaps employed the T formation on offense. Millsaps played home games at Tiger Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi.
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