The making of a Black scholar : from Georgia to the Ivy League /

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This captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Porter, Horace A., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003.
Colección:Singular lives.
Temas:
Porter, Horace A., > 1950-
Porter, Horace A., > 1950- > Childhood and youth.
1900 - 1999
African Americans > Biography.
African American scholars > Biography.
African American college students > Biography.
African Americans > Education (Higher) > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Biographies.
Savants noirs américains > Biographies.
Étudiants noirs américains > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
short stories.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
Childhood and youth of a person
African American college students
African American scholars
African Americans
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Education (Higher)
Columbus (Ga.) > Biography.
Georgia > Columbus
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Good-bye Columbus: Leaving Home in 1968
  • The Georgia Farm: 1950 -1959
  • Three Georgia Schools: Claflin, Marshall, Spencer
  • Scholarship Kid: My Freshman Year at Amherst
  • Light Up the World: Amherst College and Morehouse College
  • Black and Blue: Graduate School at Yale University
  • Inner City Blues: Detroit's Wayne State University
  • Paradise Lost: Dartmouth College, 1979-1990
  • Reflections on Stanford University: "The Farm."

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