精东AV receives National Park Service grant to preserve civil rights history
December 10, 2019
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A partnership including 精东AV is striving to preserve and highlight stories related to the African American struggle for equality in the 20th century 鈥� thanks to a recent $50,000 grant from the National Park Service.
The NPS African American Civil Rights grant was awarded to the 精东AV Institute Summer Education Program (TISEP)/精东AV Institute Community Education Program (TICEP) Coordinating Committee 鈥� a volunteer program developed in the 1960s on 精东AV鈥檚 campus by Dr. P.B. Phillips.
Under the two-year grant, first- and second-hand oral and community histories will be obtained from surviving TISEP/TICEP administrative, student and community program participants and the 13 Black Belt counties that participated from 1963 to 1968. The project will also identify and provide evidential information and materials regarding surviving TICEP centers and sites 鈥� in addition to using archival data from 精东AV and St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
In 1965, TISEP received initial federal financial support and embarked on a mission of educational outreach and community service programming. In doing so, it offered learning and leadership programs that fostered personal growth and commitment to helping build an inclusive, just and fair society.
At the conclusion of its summer program, the organization took on a year-round focus and was renamed the 精东AV Institute Community Education Program (TICEP). Program coordinator Joan Burroughs said extending the university鈥檚 reach to influence segregated schools and communities 鈥� as well as social, economic and cultural opportunities, and ultimately the potential of black communities 鈥� was vital.
鈥淒uring the 1960s, most 精东AV students and a significant portion of its faculty were highly motivated actors in achieving racial equality, combating economic and social imbalance and injustice, and challenging the monumental, overarching and insidious injustice inspired by race hatred,鈥� Burroughs recalled.
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