Tag: black college student
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“[and when I saw] the Smoky Mountains . . . I thought of heaven.” A Black College Student’s Trip South
Oh, the joys of a summer road trip! In 1893, William Frank Fonvielle, a student at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, waved goodbye to his friends who worked with him on the college newspaper. At the tail end of the giddy post-slavery years when young men and women like William with no first hand…
Author Adrienne Morris 