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This chapter focuses on the participants’ college choice processes and rationale behind those choices. Most of the participants had never heard of the GLCA institution they ultimately chose until a favorite teacher or trusted family friend recommended it. Also, scholarship programs like the National Service and Scholarship Fund for Negro Students (NSSFNS) were critical in making these students aware of their college options and making it possible for them to attend. The negative light in which some viewed historically Black colleges is also apparent, alongside integrationist philosophies that sought preparation for a post-segregationist world.
In this chapter, these 11 narratives represent the varying ways that participants ultimately came to choose what college they would attend and are organized by the participants’ years in college, with the earliest matriculate first. These individuals were chosen for the particular issues they raised, allowing for the breadth of diversity in the group to come to light. I did not include birth years as I did for the previous chapters because I believe that when they entered college is more important to situating these narratives in the social and cultural contexts of the period. The participant biographies in Appendix 2 include birth years and can be referenced if desired.
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Stewart, DL. (2017). College Choices . In: Black Collegians’ Experiences in US Northern Private Colleges. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59077-0_4
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