African Americans -- Education -- Southern States.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Berea College Science Focus Program
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.08
Abstract
Starting in 1987, the Science Focus Program at Berea College enabled the College both to identify African American high school sophomores with ability in science and/or mathematics and to instruct and guide them in their preparation to enter college in science related fields. Program participants spent four weeks on campus in an intensive educational experience and working in the College's labor program. The program appears to have run through 1999.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987 - 1999
Blount County Black History Project -Then and Now as Told by Those Who Lived It
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0157
Abstract
Charles Pride, Dorothy Kincaid, and Jo Davenport formed CDJ Media Productions to conduct and record interviews with black Blount County residents who helped shape the community during and after the integration of the schools in 1969. Their idea for collecting interviews was formed in 2007 when they identified an urgency to preserve, in an accurate and positive way, Blount County’s rich black history. Their work resulted in “Blount County’s Black History — As Told by Those Who Lived It — Then...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1959 - 2015; Other: Majority of material found in 2007-2015