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Every Person By Name: Legacies of Labor and Leadership of People of Color at Agnes Scott
No full textIn the summer of 2022, Agnes Scott College received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the Acknowledging Our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project. Dr. Yves-Rose Porcena, vice president for global diversity and inclusion served as the principal investigator on this project. Part of this work included “Every Person By Name,” a story collection and archival effort dedicated to honoring the college’s invisible workers.
“Every Person By Name” is a research and storytelling project dedicated to honoring the lives and contributions of individuals whose essential work has supported Agnes Scott College throughout its history. These individuals, often men and women of color, played vital roles in shaping the college, even though their efforts were not always fully documented in the institution’s official records. This project is divided into two parts. Part I, presented in this volume, brings together 110 years of fragments of workers’ stories from the college’s founding in 1889 to 1999, gathered from student newspapers, alumnae publications, Founder's Day recordings, administrative records, oral history interviews, census data, college archives, anecdotes, descendant or family history websites into one collective space
