Tuesday, 25 August 2009 19:59
A Place We Called Our Own: A History of Black Schools in Columbia County, Arkansas
VHS, 30 min., 1998
With grant funds from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the W.C. Kellogg Foundation, the Southwest Arkansas Community Development Corporation researched and produced a film that explains where and how African Americans were educated in Columbia County before desegregation. Narrated by an alumna of Columbia School and a VISTA volunteer on staff with the CDC, the program visits several of the school sites and makes use of oral interviews with former students and personnel of the various schools.
With grant funds from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the W.C. Kellogg Foundation, the Southwest Arkansas Community Development Corporation researched and produced a film that explains where and how African Americans were educated in Columbia County before desegregation. Narrated by an alumna of Columbia School and a VISTA volunteer on staff with the CDC, the program visits several of the school sites and makes use of oral interviews with former students and personnel of the various schools.
Category:
African American Studies