The making of a Black scholar from Georgia to the Ivy League Porter, Horace A. 1950- creator author text biography Biography. autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies History Autobiographies. Autobiographies. iau 2003 monographic eng print 157 pages ; 22 cm. "This is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative action. Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia - thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College - and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world. Focusing on such experiences in his American education, Porter's story is both unique and representative of his time." "The Making of a Black Scholar is structured around schools. Porter attends Georgia's segregated black schools until he enters the privileged world of Amherst College. He graduates (spending one semester at Morehouse College) and moves on to graduate study at Yale. He starts his teaching career at Detroit's Wayne State University and spends the 1980s at Dartmouth College and the 1990s at Stanford University." "Porter writes about working to establish the first black studies program at Amherst, the challenges of graduate study at Yale, the infamous Dartmouth Review, and his meetings with such writers and scholars as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, James Baldwin, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. He ends by reflecting on an unforeseen move to the University of Iowa, which he ties into a return to the values of his childhood on a Georgia farm. In his success and the fulfillment of his academic aspirations, Porter represents an era, a generation, of possibility and achievement."--BOOK JACKET. by Horace A. Porter. Includes index. n-us--- n-us-ga Porter, Horace A 1950- Porter, Horace A 1950- Childhood and youth Porter, Horace A 1950- African Americans Biography African American scholars Biography African American college students Biography African Americans Education (Higher) History 20th century African Americans Civil rights History 20th century Columbus (Ga.) Biography Noirs américains Biographies Savants noirs américains Biographies Étudiants noirs américains Biographies Noirs américains Droits Histoire 20e siècle Childhood and youth of a person African American college students African American scholars African Americans African Americans Civil rights African Americans Education (Higher) Georgia Columbus 1900-1999 fast E185.97.P67 M35 2003 973/.0496073/0092 B DN 2002 Making of a Black scholar Porter, Horace A., 1950- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)606979067 Singular lives 0877458359 9780877458357 2002073257 http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy035/2002073257.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy035/2002073257.html TAG TAGC DLC 020910 20240808224928.5 in00004817077 eng