The Spelman Independent Scholars is a two-semester independent, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational learning experience open to students across all majors, the goal of SIS is to enhance students critical writing and thinking skills. It also allows students the opportunity to share research and grow in griot knowledge. In addition to learning sessions with the SIS faculty mentor, students are exposed to lectures by guest scholars including gerontologists, oral historians, museum curators, and physician-researchers. Through one on one independent student relationships and class seminars, the unique yearlong program allows and entrusts students to solicit, understand and archive stories of African-American women elders. A global component of SIS has included oral history research in Accra, Ghana; Benin, West Africa; and Kingston, Jamaica. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu. 
Oct 22, 2019

The Spelman Independent Scholars Oral History Project

The Spelman Independent Scholars is a two-semester independent, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational learning experience open to students across all majors, the goal of SIS is to enhance students critical writing and thinking skills. It also allows students the opportunity to share research and grow in griot knowledge. In addition to learning sessions with the SIS faculty mentor, students are exposed to lectures by guest scholars including gerontologists, oral historians, museum curators, and physician-researchers. Through one on one independent student relationships and class seminars, the unique yearlong program allows and entrusts students to solicit, understand and archive stories of African-American women elders. A global component of SIS has included oral history research in Accra, Ghana; Benin, West Africa; and Kingston, Jamaica.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu. 
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Oral histories of women from Newtown, an African-American neighborhood in Gainesville, Georgia, whose Florist Club members became vocal leaders for civil rights and community improvement.
The Spelman Independent Scholars Oral History Project
Geneva Ivey Jackson, Newtown, October 6, 2013
Date Created
2013-10-06
Description
Oral histories of women from Newtown, an African-American neighborhood in Gainesville, Georgia, whose Florist Club members became vocal leaders for civil rights and community improvement.
Subject
African American women, Oral history, Environmental justice, African Americans--Civil rights
Collection
The Spelman Independent Scholars Oral History Project
Oral histories of women from Newtown, an African-American neighborhood in Gainesville, Georgia, whose Florist Club members became vocal leaders for civil rights and community improvement.
The Spelman Independent Scholars Oral History Project
Ms. Haley, Newtown, circa 2009
Date Created
2007/2013
Description
Oral histories of women from Newtown, an African-American neighborhood in Gainesville, Georgia, whose Florist Club members became vocal leaders for civil rights and community improvement.
Subject
African American women, Oral history, Environmental justice, African Americans--Civil rights
Collection
The Spelman Independent Scholars Oral History Project