<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Call for Submissions:</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Jacqueline Johnson and Mellon Press
invite original papers for a book entitled: </span><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Ohio’s
First African American Graduates from Institutions of Higher Learning</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">.</span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Contributors are sought who are interested in sharing and
writing candidly about their college’s or their university’s experiences upon
having accepted African American students. This book is intended to be a
reference guide that will comprehensively serve as a part of Ohio’s cultural
landscape. T</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">his
book will offer historical content that addresses the shared experiences of
these institutions as well as offer narratives from the student’s point of
view. T</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">he s</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">ubmissions should include well
documented historical information about their institutions such as the
institution’s founding, synoptic information pertaining to the first African
American students and images of the students. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Possible
questions and perspectives to be considered:</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">When
were the first African American students admitted to their particular
institution?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Where
within the state were these institutions located?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Who
made the decision and did it fit within the cultural milieu of the institution
and / or the school’s location? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Why
did the individual student want to attend college?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
were their personal inspirations and aspirations?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
did they study? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
archival images and photographs are available for each of the students?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
challenges did they face while matriculating if any?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
was their involvement in the school?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
was their field of study?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
degree did they attain?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
were the obstacles they endured?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
were the shared experiences of these students? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Who,
if anyone, mentored the student while in school? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
did the students do following graduation?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
impact did their arrival and integration have on the specific institution? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
positive aspects resulted, if any, from their education? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">What
impact, if any, did the following events make?</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Ohio
Black Laws of 1804</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Oberlin
College’s acceptance of African American Students in 1835</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Civil
War </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Introduction
of co-education in colleges and universities</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Ohio
Admixture Law of 1887</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Beginning
of Statewide Normal Schools due to the Lowry Act of 1910</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Brown
vs. Board of Education in 1956</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Timeline</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Please send 500-word
abstracts and a brief CV with relevant publications by September 15, 2014.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Notification of
acceptance will be sent by September 31, 2014.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Accepted authors
should submit articles for review by December 15, 2014.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Deadline for
submission of final articles with revisions is February, 28, 2015.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">For more information
or questions, please contact Jacky Johnson at </span><a href="mailto:johnsoj@miamioh.edu" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=johnsoj@miamioh.edu&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">johnsoj@miamioh.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt">.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Jacqueline Johnson, Interim
University Archivist</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">University Archives/Western
College Memorial Archives/Miami University</span></p>
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Avenue | Oxford, OH 45056 | Telephone.513.529.2069</span></p>
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