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Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Research Center for African
and African American Documentation is hosting an exhibit titled,
“Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow
South.”
The exhibit, which officially opened on November 10 in Durham,
N.C., is the result of a three-year oral history project that examined
life during the South’s embrace of racial segregation. More than 1,300
interviews were conducted with those who suffered through “the age of
segregation.”
In addition to the interview tapes and biographical papers of Black
families who lived through the experience, the exhibit features
historic family photographs from the era.
“This collection is the first full effort to document — in the
words of African Americans, themselves — the extraordinary ways that
Black Americans struggled, endured, and triumphed over the age of
segregation,” said the project’s co-director, William H. Chafe, who is
Duke’s dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. “The interviews tell
us how courageous, yet careful African American families were as they
sought ways to resist discrimination, protect their children, and build
institutions that would add to the strength of the community.”
For more information, contact Paul Ortiz at (919) 660-3651.
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga will soon be getting a new
endowed professorship to help students with dyslexia and other learning
disorders. According to Chancellor Bill Stacey, the University of
Tennessee Board recently voted unanimously to establish a permanent
Chair of Excellence in Dyslexia and other learning styles.
