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Rogers, Odie Floyd, Jr. 1921-1957 (Sc 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2003

Rogers, Odie Floyd, Jr. 1921-1957 (Sc 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1386. World War II diary kept by Odie Floyd Rogers, Jr. (1921-1957) Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, who was a member of a flight crew that evidently was stationed in Sicily. They bombed chiefly Italian targets. Rogers completed 66 missions. Includes a 2001 letter with data on planes flown by Rogers.


African Americans And Land Loss In Texas: Government Duplicity And Discrimination Based On Race And Class, Debra Reid Jan 2003

African Americans And Land Loss In Texas: Government Duplicity And Discrimination Based On Race And Class, Debra Reid

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

"African American Farmers and Land Loss in Texas," surveys the ways that discrimination at the local, state, and national levels constrained minority farmers during the twentieth century. It considers the characteristics of small-scale farming that created liabilities for landowners regardless of race, including state and federal programs that favored commercial and agribusiness interests. In addition to economic challenges African American farmers had to negotiate racism in the Jim Crow South. The Texas Agricultural Extension Service, the state branch of the USDA's Extension Service, segregated in 1915. The "Negro" division gave black farmers access to information about USDA programs, but it …


Report From The Field: Public History At Howard University, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Dec 2002

Report From The Field: Public History At Howard University, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis

Elizabeth Clark-Lewis

At Howard University, the public history program uses new empirical methodologies and pedagogies to engage students and nonacademic audiences. This article outlines the specialized knowledge, perspectives, approaches, practices, issues, and critical concerns of this program. It illustrates how focused, innovative research opportuni- ties simultaneously move students beyond the boundaries of academic theories, pub- licly funded agencies, private corporations, or entrepreneurial firms while helping them remain sensitive to community-based programs, projects, institutions, and con- stituencies. Public history is congruent with service, a core value of Howard Univer- sity, and it strengthens the university's ability to reach beyond the confines of academe; …