Anthology of Black Education at Oberlin
	Oberlin College Archives Attract Students and Other Researchers		"Oberlin's commitment to black education is a beautiful and interesting story," says Roland Baumann, Oberlin College archivist. He hopes that the 20 items in the anthology--including letters, speeches, first-person accounts, and petitions--will make that story more accessible to students. The anthology is arranged around five chapters, and will be available late summer electronically and in print, with an initial print run of between 500 and 750 bound copies. From reading documents detailing Oberlin's unprecedented 1835 decision to admit students regardless of race to papers concerning dormitory segregation at the turn of the century, Becky Johnson, a junior from Cincinnati, says her work on the anthology has been eye opening. She takes particular interest in describing a 1913 letter reacting to the College's refusal to let two African-American sisters live on campus. "The mother, Mary Church Terrell, an 1884 Oberlin graduate and a very eloquent woman, wrote a very long and passionate letter to the College which is going to be one of the documents in the anthology. It's a beautiful document--it's well written, and the woman is so passionate. It's going to be a great thing to read," says Johnson.
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