Location
Library 3D
Session
Session 4
Start Date
12-4-2013 1:15 PM
End Date
12-4-2013 2:15 PM
Description
Students in a variety of Nicholls sociology classes gained genealogical and oral-history skills as part of service learning projects working toward a brochure on the history of an iconic local African-American church founded by former slaves. The brochure will contain both the history of the Mt. Zion Church and a more general discussion of the customs, rites, norms, and burial practices of early, southern African-American churches. Students kept journals and wrote reflective papers on their work in the course. This project extends work discussed at a previous ULS Service-Learning conference.
Doing Local History of an African-American Church Community: Chackbay’s Little Zion
Library 3D
Students in a variety of Nicholls sociology classes gained genealogical and oral-history skills as part of service learning projects working toward a brochure on the history of an iconic local African-American church founded by former slaves. The brochure will contain both the history of the Mt. Zion Church and a more general discussion of the customs, rites, norms, and burial practices of early, southern African-American churches. Students kept journals and wrote reflective papers on their work in the course. This project extends work discussed at a previous ULS Service-Learning conference.