One Year: 1986 | 4. A Boycott in Mississippi
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The Superintendent's Philosophy: You Must Make Em Happen
Otha campbell grew up in indianola. Robert merritt was his principal. The school board met secretly at godwin's home on an old plantation. They invited a white man from a different mississippi school district to join them that day, and essentially offered him the superintendent job. Hiring doctor merrid would be a historic move. This was the first time that they would have had a black superintendent.
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