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Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana

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Biography

The Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana is a program run in collaboration with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the NAACP.

The Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana is a program run in collaboration with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the NAACP. In 2022, the program funded an excursion of multicultural college students and other young adults to be sent to Ghana for ten days. The fellowship aimed to build bridges with Ghanaians, experience the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and pan-African movement civil rights leaders, and learn about Latter-Day Saints members involved in the Abolitionist movement.

Citation:
NAACP, via www, October 14, 2024 (Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana; The Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana is a program run in collaboration with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the NAACP. In 2022, the program funded an excursion of multicultural college students and other young adults to be sent to Ghana for ten days. The fellowship aimed to build bridges with Ghanains, experience the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and pan-African movement civil rights leaders, and learn about Latter-Day Saints members involved in the Abolitionist movement) https://naacp.org/amos-c-brown-student-fellowship-ghana

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Grace Soelberg papers on the Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9652
Scope and Contents Collection contains materials collected by Grace Ann Soelberg as part of her participation in the Amos C. Brown Student Fellowship to Ghana, including trip itineraries, printed email correspondence, handouts, and guidelines. It also includes two publications, "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870" by W.E.B. Du Bois, and "A Smart Ghana Repatriation Guide" by Diallo Sumbry. Also contains artifacts Grace obtained in Ghana, including two kente...
Dates: 2022
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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