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Amjambo Africa! (August 2022), Kathreen Harrison Aug 2022

Amjambo Africa! (August 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Amjambo Arts ......................2/3

Moonglade .............................4/5

Education .............................6-10

Free Community College

In 7 languages

Immigration fraud .................12

In 7 languages

Market Basket ...................14/15

Tips & Info ..............................16

All about the Workforce ........18

Community Happenings .20/21

Girls & women in Africa........22

Central America news ...........24

Health&Wellness. ..............26-27

In 7 languages

Service organization columns 32

Financial literacy ....................33

New Voices feature ...........34/35

Nonprofit updates .............36/37


Cora Ann Westmoreland, Kelli Johnson Jun 2022

Cora Ann Westmoreland, Kelli Johnson

Oral Histories – NPS AACR Civil Rights In Appalachia Grant

Kelli Johnson conducting an oral history interview with Cora Westmoreland.

This oral history is part of the National Park Service African Americans Civil Rights History and Appalachia Grant Program.


Photograph, A&M Arch At Arkansas State University Aug 2020

Photograph, A&M Arch At Arkansas State University

Arkansas schools

This is a picture taken in Spring of the A&M arch on the campus of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Craighead County.


Educational Reform In The Old Eighth Ward - With Biography Of William Howard Day, Drew Hermeling, Digital Harrisburg Jan 2019

Educational Reform In The Old Eighth Ward - With Biography Of William Howard Day, Drew Hermeling, Digital Harrisburg

Look Up, Look Out

In the early days of the Old Eighth Ward, education was segregated and the responsibility of church communities. Thomas Dorsey founded a school for “colored children, both free and bound,” in 1817 in the Wesley Union AME Zion church building. Eventually, a three story building, located between the Jennings Foundry and the Wesley Union church, known as “Franklin Hall” became the primary educational home of the Ward’s pupils. However, Franklin Hall was poorly suited for educating children. J. Howard Wert, writing in the Patriot, described the conditions there, stating that they

“were of the poorest; the rooms were destitute of …


Entre Nosotros (University Of Maine) Records, 1939-1976, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine Jan 2018

Entre Nosotros (University Of Maine) Records, 1939-1976, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Finding Aids

Copies of Entre Nosotros, a publication of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society (La Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica).


Slave Narratives Oral History Lesson Plan Jun 2016

Slave Narratives Oral History Lesson Plan

Lesson plans

This unit explores the value and shortcomings of using oral histories for historic record by examining ex-slave narratives relating to Arkansas.

This lesson plan was produced for 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade students, but may be altered by teachers to fit other grade levels.


Desegregation In Arkansas Lesson Plan Jun 2016

Desegregation In Arkansas Lesson Plan

Lesson plans

This lesson explores desegregation in Arkansas through the use of primary and secondary sources. Students will read newspaper articles, manuscripts, and pamphlet excerpts to understand the story of desegregation in Arkansas. A list of various activities related to original primary and secondary resources allows teachers the flexibility to choose parts of this lesson plan to use and adapt as needed.

This lesson plan was produced for 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, and 12th grade students, but may be altered by teachers to fit other grade levels.


A History Of Canadian Studies At The University Of Maine, Robert H. Babcock Jan 2009

A History Of Canadian Studies At The University Of Maine, Robert H. Babcock

Books

The purpose of this book is to explain the development of the Canadian Studies program at the University of Maine from its origins in the early 20th century to its position today as the most comprehensive program of its kind in the United States. Readers will learn how Maine's close proximity to Canada has spawned an ever-widening range of cross-border academic contacts rooted in mutual interests that are reinforced by collaborative academic study, which is benefiting residents on both sides of the international boundary.


Photograph, Oil Trough School Interior Oct 1991

Photograph, Oil Trough School Interior

Arkansas schools

This is the interior of an old one-room school house in Oil Trough, Independence County.


Oral History Interview: Helen Adams, Helen Adams Jul 1974

Oral History Interview: Helen Adams, Helen Adams

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Helen Adams was born on January 13, 1898, and was raised in Strange Creek, West Virginia. She lived on a farm with her family. She was one of seven children and her parents also raised two other boys who were orphaned. During her interview, Mrs. Adams discusses working on the farm, raising livestock, and preserving food. She discusses going to church and attending social events like box suppers and socials. She also focuses on folk medicine and the uses of alcohol for medicine and recreational purposes.


Oral History Interview: Edward C. Jackson, Edward C. Jackson Jun 1974

Oral History Interview: Edward C. Jackson, Edward C. Jackson

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Edward C. Jackson was born on January 17, 1911, in Canfield, Braxton County, WV. In 1926, he moved to Fenwick, Nicholas County, WV, to pursue jobs in saw mills. In his interview, Mr. Jackson describes in great detail the design and structure of the log home he lived in as a child. He focuses on growing up on a farm and places emphasis on the type of work he did and food preparation and preservation. Mr. Jackson also discusses the tight-knit community in which he was raised. In the audio clip provided, Mr. Jackson discusses working in the lumber industry. …


Oral History Interview: Ethel Barnes, Eva Ethel Barnes Apr 1973

Oral History Interview: Ethel Barnes, Eva Ethel Barnes

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Eva Ethel Barnes, who is referred to as Ethel Barnes during her interview, was born on February 25, 1900, in Ivydale, Clay County, West Virginia. She attended a one room school house as a child. In the audio clip provided, Mrs. Barnes discusses her education as a child in a one room school house. She focuses on the classroom schedule and her teachers at this school. During her interview she also discusses preserving and preparing food and soap with her mother.


150 Years Of Education In Maine, Kermit S. Nickerson Jan 1970

150 Years Of Education In Maine, Kermit S. Nickerson

Maine Collection

150 Years of Education in Maine

Kermit S. Nickerson, Deputy Commissioner of Education

State of Maine, Department of Education, Augusta, 1970.

Sesqui-Centennial History of Maine's Educational System and the Growth and Development of the Maine State Department of Education.

Contents: Foreword / 150 Years / Part I - Education in Maine Prior to 1900 / Part II - Development of the State Department of Education



New Baptist Student Center At Arkansas State College Dec 1959

New Baptist Student Center At Arkansas State College

Arkansas schools

This is a photograph of the newly completed Student Center on the Arkansas State College campus.


Photo, Arithmetic Exhibit At Jonesboro Dec 1959

Photo, Arithmetic Exhibit At Jonesboro

Arkansas schools

This is a photograph of a teacher, Mrs. Georgia Dunlap, with students Pat Haulk and Ellen White, in Jonesboro, Arkansas.


St. Peter's Catholic School Cheerleaders, 1951 Dec 1951

St. Peter's Catholic School Cheerleaders, 1951

Arkansas schools

Postcard sent to Jettie Mae Turner on September 8, 1951, depicting a group of St. Peter's Catholic School cheerleaders. Pictured are Christine Hammons, Gladys T. Turner, Marinda Henderson, Jettie Mae Turner, and Bessie Marie Davis.


School Bus With Children In Line To Board, Marshall, Searcy County Dec 1949

School Bus With Children In Line To Board, Marshall, Searcy County

Arkansas schools

This photograph depicts a school bus with several children waiting in line to board, in Marshall, Searcy County, Arkansas, sometime in the 1930s or 1940s. The image is from the Works Projects Administration Arkansas Writers' Project.


Lincoln School In Tin Cup Town, Fayetteville, Washington County Dec 1949

Lincoln School In Tin Cup Town, Fayetteville, Washington County

Arkansas schools

A sepia-toned photograph of children playing in front of the African American Lincoln School in Tin Cup Town, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas. The school was built by Works Projects Administration labor in 1936.


Arched Gate Leading To St. John's Seminary In Little Rock, 1930s-40s Dec 1949

Arched Gate Leading To St. John's Seminary In Little Rock, 1930s-40s

Arkansas schools

This is a close-up view of one of the arched gates leading into St. John's Seminary in Little Rock.


Teaching Certificate, Myrtle Campbell Dec 1948

Teaching Certificate, Myrtle Campbell

Arkansas schools

This is a three-year elementary teaching certificate for Myrtle Campbell, valid from 1948 to 1951.


Petition, Consolidation Of Districts Number 62 And Number 80 Dec 1946

Petition, Consolidation Of Districts Number 62 And Number 80

Arkansas schools

This document is proof of publication from the Walnut Ridge Times-Dispatch showing that they advertised the court proceedings to consolidate school districts number 62 and number 80.


Enrollment And Attendance, Flat Creek School District 7 Feb 1939

Enrollment And Attendance, Flat Creek School District 7

Arkansas schools

This form describes the enrollment and attendance of school children at the Flat Creek rural school in Lawrence County for February of 1939 as prepared by teacher or principal Ruth Price.


Teacher Retirement Card, Mrs. J.E. Purdy Dec 1937

Teacher Retirement Card, Mrs. J.E. Purdy

Arkansas schools

This notecard is folded and printed on both sides to track the retirement fund for school teacher Vesta Mae Wyatt Purdy.


Campus View At Magnolia A.& M. College Dec 1931

Campus View At Magnolia A.& M. College

Arkansas schools

Campus View of Magnolia A.& M. College, looking west from Caraway hall and Old Main buildings.


Magazine Public School And Students, 1930 Dec 1930

Magazine Public School And Students, 1930

Arkansas schools

This is a black and white photograph taken in 1930, of the Magazine Public School building with a group of the school's students in front of it.


Appeal, School Districts Consolidation Aug 1929

Appeal, School Districts Consolidation

Arkansas schools

These are documents from a court case between the Hoxie Special School District number 46 and the Ringle School District number 54. District number 54 was to be dissolved and the territory annexed to district number 46, but the families of both districts did not want to be combined into one school district and appealed the decision.


Magazine High School Graduating Class Of 1928 Dec 1928

Magazine High School Graduating Class Of 1928

Arkansas schools

Photograph of Magazine High School graduating class of 1928. Front row: Bessie Barker, Mildred Leftwich, Loyd Vaught. Middle row: Rooney Coffer, Fawn Leftwich, Hobart White. Back Row: Herbert Grist, Garland Godphrey


The 1924 Mulerider First Team And Entire Basketball Squad Dec 1924

The 1924 Mulerider First Team And Entire Basketball Squad

Arkansas schools

This is a photograph of the 1924 A.& M. College Mule Rider girls basketball first team and entire squad.


Pistol Permit, H.S. Griggsby Dec 1923

Pistol Permit, H.S. Griggsby

Arkansas schools

This is a pistol permit issued to H.S. Griggsby of Portia.


Petition To Create School District 78 Dec 1921

Petition To Create School District 78

Arkansas schools

These documents include the certification of a petition to create a new school district and a map delineating the proposed district's boundaries.