Founded as the 1866年在马里兰师范学校任教, 稳定的十大彩票网站 was a product of Maryland’s segregated school system and remained racially segregated until after the United States Supreme Court struck down racial segregation of public schools in 1954.

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陶森州立大学的种族融合

The faculty and administration of Towson State College are deeply conscious of their responsibility to strive for full integration of every aspect of the college at the earliest possible moment. They view with satisfaction its record in this area in the past. They promise a vital effort to fulfill their moral obligation to every person or group who petitions the college whether it be a student seeking admission, a scholar seeking the privilege of teaching, a worker seeking employment, or an athletic team seeking a contest. We conceive of this moral obligation as a mandate, more binding than a mere law, that an institution of higher education must be in the vanguard of all institutions in destroying social barriers based on race, religion, or national origin.

在学院或大学里，歧视可能存在于许多层面。 The most obvious areas where it can be found are in the recruitment and admission of students, the employment of professional and non-professional staff, and in the non-academic functions of the college both internal and external.

“陶森州立学院的融合报告,” February 21, 1966, 稳定的十大彩票网站 Archives, Records of the Maryland Board of Trustees of the State Universities and Colleges, 1963-1988, UA 00003, Box 2, Folder 3.

Even after the university began to integrate in 1955 African Americans struggled to find full equality. Black students, faculty, administrators, and their white allies fighting against the structural racism and racial prejudices of the period worked exhaustively to make 稳定的十大彩票网站 their own as well through the second half of the twentieth century and still today.

Inspired by efforts at other American colleges and universities to come to terms with a legacy of racial inequality in American high education, a team of 稳定的十大彩票网站 researchers has begun a multi-year project to investigate and publicize this institution’s exclusionist past and its ongoing efforts to diversify.

目标

The 发掘陶森的历史项目 is an interdisciplinary collaborative effort that centers students as researchers and interpreters and connects alumni and the wider community to the university.

该团队的目标是：

• Investigate the history of intersectional diversity including not only race and male/ female gender but sexuality, complex gender, class, and ethnicity
• Gather the stories of current and past Towson students, faculty, and staff’s experience with diversity
• 记录与稳定的十大彩票网站历史有关的人的口述历史
• Digitize and make resources relating to diversity at 稳定的十大彩票网站 available to the wider community
• Share these stories with the wider public through online exhibits, 博客文章, and resources
• Become a resource for the wider 稳定的十大彩票网站 community to learn about and preserve its past
• Partner with area institutions to situate 稳定的十大彩票网站’s experience in the wider region

资源

The project team has developed a 资源页面 which includes oral histories, relevant print and archival collections, as well as presentations and 博客文章.

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合作伙伴

The project is a collaboration between the 库克图书馆特别馆藏和大学档案, the 历史系, and the 包容和机构公平办公室 with the support of the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost. Unearthing Towson's History Project is a member of the 研究奴隶制的大学。

项目团队

指导委员会

Christian Koot, History Department
Ashley Todd-Diaz, Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections and University Archives
Brian Jara, Inclusion, and Institutional Equity

教师研究人员

历史系的阿基姆·莱因哈特

研究生

Christina Bishop ’21-22
Al'lyienah Howell ’21-22
Allyn Lawrence '21-22
Peyton Cleary ’19-20
Catherine Campbell ’19
Sara Cantler ’19
Jasmine Thomas ’19