GREENSBORO, N.C. — On June 3, 1970, WFMY News 2 spoke with the director of a new summer teaching institute at North Carolina A&T.
The university was hosting a six-week program for educators of schools that were recently desegregated or preparing to desegregate.
The institute was called "Teaching Teachers to Teach Black Experience and Black Students in Integrated Schools."
"Generally elementary teachers have not been given the attention they deserve. So, we changed emphasis a little and decided to start in the beginning," Professor Norman Jarrard.
He explained that having the institute at A&T was a first since the Department of Education felt black colleges should have the opportunity to host these types of programs.
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