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The Importance of Studying and Teaching Black History
By
Chester J. Fontenot, Jr., Ph. D.
Baptist Professor of English and Director
Africana Studies Program
Mercer University
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So, I followed my counselor’s advice, but found once I enrolled in college, that my scholarship
didn’t cover all of my expenses. While it paid for my tuition, fees, housing and meals, it didn’t
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money we earned didn’t come clos Ǥ
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educated population in Southern California. Also, I didn’t have the option of going back home
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