03099nam 2200637Ia 450 991080905000332120230617042200.01-58729-437-0(CKB)1000000000447526(EBL)837089(OCoLC)56109459(SSID)ssj0000195925(PQKBManifestationID)11180402(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195925(PQKBWorkID)10141417(PQKB)10429179(MiAaPQ)EBC837089(MdBmJHUP)muse12510(Au-PeEL)EBL837089(CaPaEBR)ebr10354625(EXLCZ)99100000000044752620020910d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe making of a Black scholar[electronic resource] from Georgia to the Ivy League /by Horace A. PorterIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20031 online resource (173 p.)Singular livesIncludes index.0-87745-835-9 A Note to Readers; Good-bye Columbus: Leaving Home in 1968; 1 : The Georgia Farm: 1950 -1959; 2 : Three Georgia Schools: Claflin, Marshall, Spencer; 3 : Scholarship Kid: My Freshman Year at Amherst; 4 : Light Up the World:Amherst College and Morehouse College; 5 : Black and Blue: Graduate School at Yale University; 6 : Inner City Blues: Detroit's Wayne State University; 7 : Paradise Lost: Dartmouth College, 1979-1990; Reflections on Stanford University: "The Farm"; Acknowledgments; IndexThis captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative action. Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia-thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College-and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world. Focusing on suchSingular lives.African AmericansBiographyAfrican American scholarsBiographyAfrican American college studentsBiographyAfrican AmericansEducation (Higher)History20th centuryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryColumbus (Ga.)BiographyAfrican AmericansAfrican American scholarsAfrican American college studentsAfrican AmericansEducation (Higher)HistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory973/.0496073/0092Porter Horace A.1950-1649369MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809050003321The making of a Black scholar4075059UNINA