Oral history interview with James R. Smothers, Jr., 1981.

Biographical Note

Educator.

Scope and Contents

World War II service, education; Director of Admissions, Fisk University during early 1950s; United Negro College Fund: African scholarship program of American universities, civil rights movement and effect on black colleges, and on fund raising; administration turnover, bureaucracy; educational testing.

Subjects

• African Americans--Education.
• Educational fund raising.
• Educational tests and measurements.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Goodson, Martia, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Smothers, James R.--Interviews.
• United Negro College Fund.
• United States--Race relations.