History

 Updated April 3, 2014
How information technology all Began
Overview
How it all Began
Champions of Mississippi Normal College began their fight for the creation of a normal college in 1877. Finally, in 1906, the first normal college beak was introduced merely died in the hostile House Pedagogy Committee. Afterward a 2nd normal college bill died in 1908, Country Superintendent of Education J.N. Powers turned to T.P. Scott, and then head of Brookhaven urban center schools and an active fellow member of the Mississippi Teachers Association (MTA), to organize a campaign in support of a third bill, Firm Bill 204, which Rep. Marshall McCullough intended to introduce in 1910. The ensuing boxing for Mississippi Normal College was described past the Jackson Daily News equally "one of the greatest legislative fights of the decade."
Since 1901, Scott had been sending an endless stream of mimeographed messages to county superintendents of education and newspaper editors throughout the country, asking for their support for the MTA and for the full general interest of instruction in Mississippi. In 1908, he focused his efforts on the enemies of Pecker 203, who soon found themselves besieged with letters, telephone calls, telegrams and editorials from all parts of Mississippi, urging institution of the normal higher. Eventually, the statewide interest caused past all of the publicity helped "crystallize sentiment in the membership of the Business firm," Scott later wrote.
When the time came for the bill to be introduced to the House, Speaker H.Thousand. Street asked the Honorable A.C. Anderson of Ripley, an enthusiastic supporter of the measure, to take his place while he smoked his afternoon cigar in the cloakroom. Anderson had no sooner taken the gavel than McCullough chosen upwards the normal college bill. After a number of pro and con speeches and the adoption of an subpoena hit out the discussion "state" and the appropriation clause from the bill, the measure was passed by a vote of 59 yeas and 39 nays. The Senate promptly passed the nib for establishment of the higher, and it was signed by Gov. Edmund Noel and became constabulary on March thirty, 1910.