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The Journey for Jackson State
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Roach, Ronald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
This article profiles Jackson State University, a historically Black school of more than 8,000 students located at the southern end of Jackson, Mississippi's majority-Black capital city. Founded in 1877, Jackson State has emerged as one of Mississippi's leading research institutions as well as one of the top HBCUs in the country for research. Its…
Descriptors: State Officials, Educational Improvement, Partnerships in Education, Black Colleges
Catching up with ... Joyce Ladner: Portrait of Joyce Ladner, Sociologist and Activist
Roach, Ronald – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
From her late teenage years as a civil rights activist to an interim presidency at Howard University, Dr. Joyce A. Ladner has lived as heroic and accomplished a life as any scholar of her generation. A 1964 graduate of Tougaloo College, Ladner, in her college days, with her sister, Dorie Ladner, and other students from the Student Nonviolent…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Social Scientists, Equal Education, Civil Rights