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Episode 26: Dr. Bettye Gardner, Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland

Episode 26: Dr. Bettye Gardner, Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland

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DATE : Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:00:00 GMT
Entered in Database : 2006-11-25 05:00:00
length : 30109174
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Interview with Dr. Bettye Gardner of Coppin State University, an HBCU. Dr. Gardner is a professor of African-American and U.S. History at Coppin and a member of Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

Much thanks to Ursula V. Battle, Director of the Office of University Relations at Coppin State for facilitating this interview.

Show Notes:

• History of Coppin State
• The merging of Coppin State and Morgan State
• Life in Vicksburg, MS
• Dr. Gardner descended from a free AA (one of 20), who was a midwife and owned property
• A strong community in a segregated town
• Why the younger generation needs to understand their roots
• The Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C.
• Under renovation for opening in 2008
  
• The restoration of the Carter G. Woodson Home
• The restoration of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
• Preserving American's Treasures
• Commemoration of the U.S. Capitol's slave laborers inside of the Capitol visitor's center
• HBCUs educating the talented 10th and becoming the missionaries of culture

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