“Instilling Wisdom, Building Character” A Study of Segregation, Politics, and Public Education in Sumter County, Georgia, 1930s–1970s
Berggren D and Petty AM. 2021. “Instilling Wisdom, Building Character” A Study of Segregation, Politics, and Public Education in Sumter County, Georgia, 1930s–1970s. National Park Service. Plains, Georgia
This special history study is the product of four years of research conducted by D. Jason Berggren of Georgia Southwestern State University and Adrienne Monteith Petty of the College of William & Mary. They collaborated in conducting oral history interviews with men and women in Americus, Sumter County, Durham, North Carolina, and suburban Atlanta, while doing research at the Georgia State Archives and the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park. Jason conducted research independently at the Lake Blackshear Regional Library in Americus; Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta; Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama; the University of Chicago; the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona; the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California; and the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas. Adrienne did research at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Robert Russa Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Berggren, D. Jason; Petty, Adrienne
- Date of Issue
- 2021-12
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- JICA
- Keywords
- “Instilling Wisdom, 1930s–1970s, A Study of Segregation, Adrienne M. Petty, and Public Education in Sumter County, Building Character”, D. Jason Berggren, Georgia, Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, Julius Rosenwald Foundation, Organization of American Historians, Plains High School, Politics, Sumter County