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  • Collection: Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension

Research Apprentices in the Field, 1981.

USDA 1981 UA 100.40.6.pdf
These two pictures show the African American Research Apprentices in the field for their summer study. The students are interacting with farmers and potentially farming families or faculty.

Phillip Morris Scholarship Winners, circa 1970-1979

Phillip Morris scholarship UA023.006.1 folder 5.pdf
This overhead photograph shows NC State agricultural student scholars touring a tobacco factory. While the majority of winners are white males, some scholarship recipients were African American women and white women.

Forward Together, Annual Report 1950-1956, School of Agriculture, North Carolina State University

UA100.2.18 annual report 1950-56.pdf

The following exceprt comes from page 33 of the 1950 report (page 2 of PDF). See PDF for full document."Inside the ClassroomState College normally has about 4,200 students enrolled each year. But less than 100 are women. Two other units of the…

Opportunities for Minorities: Graduate Studies at North Carolina State University

MC39.11 minority programs 1987.pdf
This pamphlet informs minorities of various graduate school information: degrees offered; requirements for admission to the graduate school; University Policy; Tuition and Fees (Per Semester); Special Financial Assistance; Minority Presence…

The N.E.T.W.O.R.K.: The Network for Empowerment Through Women Organized to Redefine Knowledge. Sponsored by: The Women's Center at North Carolina State University

UA16.31halfbox1 1995 pamphlet folder 2.pdf
The N.E.T.W.O.R.K's mission reflected NCSU's changing attitudes of female students in the 1990s. The Women's Center provided a network of "role models for the women students at North Carolina State University through a mentoring progam." The…

Workers in the field gathering tobacco leaves

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This is a black and white photograph of African-American farm laborers harvesting tobacco leaves. The laborers are men, women, and a child. Note also their reliance on draft power in the background of the photograph.

Rural Women's Symposium, 1959

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Miss Ruth Current, Assistant Director for the N.C. Agricultural Extension Service, is shown explaining the Rural Women's Symposium theme "The Widening Circle of Enriched Ideas and Experience" to Mrs. Fernie Lauginghouse Pantego and Mrs. J.V.…

Leonidas L. Polk

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A portrait of Leonidas L. Polk. He was instrumental in the creation of North Carolina State University.

Federal, Professors, and Students documents related to USDA Research Apprenticeship Program, 1980.

USDA1980collection.pdf

The following are transcripts from pages 3, 5, and 7. See PDF for full text.p. 3: "February 05, 1980. Subject: Research Apprenticeships for Minority High School Students. To: Directors of State Agricultural Experiment Stations,…

Federal, Professors, and Students documents related to USDA Research Apprenticeship Program, 1981.

USDA1981collection.pdf

The excerpted transcription is a collaboration of student evaluation answers to questions provided by the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1981. This transcription allows researchers to easily view the data. See PDF for full document. 1.…