The making of a Black scholar : from Georgia to the Ivy League /
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...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2003.
|
| Series: | Singular lives.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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."
