Word: flanner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trustees of Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas asked Blackburn to take over their campus as well as Flanner. Blackburn saw his problem as helping Negro farm hands driven from their jobs by modern machines. In addition to basic liberal arts, he set such students to studying animal husbandry, soil chemistry and farm machinery, gave them a third year of working at a job under college supervision. After that, armed with an associate of arts certificate, they are ready to strike out for themselves...
...years ago, a group of Indianapolis and Texas businessmen got together to find a way to further Blackburn's work. Last week their Board for Fundamental Education announced its first project: for Flanner and Jarvis-and for similar centers it hopes to establish elsewhere-it intends to raise $14 million in the name of Cleo Blackburn...