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Mississippi River, from Memphis to New Orleans. Not a few of the students over the years came from agricultural families
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The school was sold in 2014 to a private individual and did not open for the 2014–2015 session. The buildings have been repurposed into housing for students at Alcorn State
University. An attempt to raise funds to purchase the school from the Trustees, rename it "Oakland Collegiate School," and
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at one time, it is fitting that the fine old
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127:Knowledge and Wisdom in Submission to God
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