LEADER 03099nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910809050003321 005 20230617042200.0 010 $a1-58729-437-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447526 035 $a(EBL)837089 035 $a(OCoLC)56109459 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000195925 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195925 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10141417 035 $a(PQKB)10429179 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837089 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12510 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837089 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354625 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447526 100 $a20020910d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe making of a Black scholar$b[electronic resource] $efrom Georgia to the Ivy League /$fby Horace A. Porter 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (173 p.) 225 1 $aSingular lives 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-87745-835-9 327 $aA 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; Index 330 $aThis captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative action. Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia-thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College-and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world. Focusing on such 410 0$aSingular lives. 606 $aAfrican Americans$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American scholars$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American college students$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$xEducation (Higher)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aColumbus (Ga.)$vBiography 615 0$aAfrican Americans 615 0$aAfrican American scholars 615 0$aAfrican American college students 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEducation (Higher)$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 676 $a973/.0496073/0092 700 $aPorter$b Horace A.$f1950-$01649369 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809050003321 996 $aThe making of a Black scholar$94075059 997 $aUNINA