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1 online resource (157 pages) |
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Singular lives |
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Singular lives.
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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." |
| Summary |
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 action. Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia - thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College - and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Porter, Horace A., 1950-
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Porter, Horace A., 1950- -- Childhood and youth
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Porter, Horace A., 1950- fast |
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African Americans -- Biography
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African American scholars -- Biography
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African American college students -- Biography
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African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
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short stories.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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African American college students
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African American scholars
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African Americans
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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African Americans -- Education (Higher)
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Columbus (Ga.) -- Biography
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Georgia -- Columbus
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1587294370 |
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9781587294372 |
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