emergingVOICES of Coffee County : silent no more ; voicing secrets - exposing history
Online exhibit examining the integration of Coffee County, Georgia's public schools.
More About This Collection
Date of Original
2016/9999
Subject
School integration--Georgia--Coffee County
Segregation in education--Georgia--Coffee County
Discrimination in education--Georgia--Coffee County
Coffee County (Ga.)--Race relations
African Americans--Education--Georgia--Coffee County
Location
United States, Georgia, Coffee County, 31.54927, -82.8492
Medium
online exhibitions
instructional materials
sound recordings
photographs
Type
MovingImage
Sound
Text
Description
Online exhibit examining the integration of Coffee County, Georgia's public schools. Site contains clips of interviews and examines three time periods: Segregation (1865-1965), Optional Integration (1965-1969), and Mandatory Integration (1969-1970)., emergingVOICES, part of the ongoing project Playback & FastFORWARD, dedicates this work to those who generously and courageously recorded their memories of their period of intense change and inspire us now to speak.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
Coffee County Memory Project (Ga.)
Coffee County Historical Society (Ga.)
Rights
This project is supported by Georgia Humanities, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Economic Development, through funding from the Georgia General Assembly.
