For anyone attending Stockton who wanted to learn more about African American life, the university started offering about a dozen courses in 1984 that served as the foundation for what became its Africana studies program, where a student can major in the subject and travel to the continent of Africa.
For anyone attending Stockton who wanted to learn more about African American life, the university started offering about a dozen courses in 1984 that served as the foundation for what became its Africana studies program, where a student can major in the subject and travel to the continent of Africa.
(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) Thanks to the donation of a Stockton University professor, the legacy of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer has been permanently enshrined in the place where she changed history.
Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer s legacy will continue to live on in Atlantic City through a statue gifted to the resort that will live inside Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, where she gave a famous speech in 1964.