Talented Tenth HBCU Tour

Talented Tenth HBCU Tour (Multi-city Fall tour 2008)

Bethune Cookman University, Alabama A & M University, University of the District of the Columbia, Southern University at Baton Rouge, South Carolina State University

Sponsor: NAVY

Five-city lecture tour on leadership featuring Tavis Smiley at Historically Black Colleges & Universities.

"The Talented Tenth ... must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people ... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life."
-W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)

Talented Tenth HBCU Tour

 

Previous HBCU Talented Tenth Tour Stops:

Bethune Cookman University
September 2008

Alabama A &M University
September 2008

University of the District of Columbia
September 2008

Southern University at Baton Rouge
October 2008

South Carolina State University
November 2008
 


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