{"id":772,"date":"2008-05-06T09:57:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T09:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/05\/06\/delta-states-college-of-education-and-sunflower-county-schools-plan-oral-history-project\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:42","slug":"delta-states-college-of-education-and-sunflower-county-schools-plan-oral-history-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/05\/delta-states-college-of-education-and-sunflower-county-schools-plan-oral-history-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State&#8217;s College of Education and Sunflower County Schools plan oral history project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"65%\" align=\"center\" summary=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"216\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/01oralhistory.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>From left: Delta State Division Chair for Teacher Education Dr. Jenetta Waddell; Delta State Dean, College of Education Dr. Leslie Griffin; Assistant Superintendent of Sunflower County School District Dr. Cheryl Pinckney; and Public Relations Coordinator\/Grant Writer for Sunflower County School District Carl Brinkley discuss the upcoming Oral History Project.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>The Delta State University College of Education, in celebration of the University&rsquo;s Year of Delta Heritage theme, is collaborating with the Sunflower County School District to connect the generations through untold stories.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>The project is also supported through grants from The Mississippi Humanities Council and the Wal-Mart Foundation, as well as support from the Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning, directed by Dr. Luther Brown. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Through the project, middle and high school students in Sunflower County schools will be trained to conduct oral history interviews with individuals who came of age or lived during a significant Civil Rights era in the South (1950s &ndash; 1960s). The interviews will be produced as a documentary, with future phases of the project to include the development of curriculum to accompany the documentary.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;From left: Delta State Division Chair for Teacher Education Dr. Jenetta Waddell; Delta State Dean, College of Education Dr. Leslie Griffin; Assistant Superintendent of Sunflower County School District Dr. Cheryl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41869,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/41869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}