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Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

9/1/1978 - 8/31/1979

Funding Totals

$23,587.00 (approved)
$23,587.00 (awarded)

Case Study of A Black School's Community Relationship

FAIN: RS-*0898-78

Jackson State University (Jackson, MS 39217-0001)
Alferdteen B. Harrison (Project Director: February 1978 to October 1990)

To conduct a comparative case study of the immediate community relationship of 3 private black rural schools in South Central Mississippi, Utica Junior College (1903), Prentiss Institute (1907), and Piney Woods (1909). Study will ultimately result in 20 new oral history sources; a bibliography of these sources; and a photographically illustrated manuscript for publication.