One Of The Biggest Things I Understood In A Program Like That Was That It Allowed More Young African American Scholars To Do Field Research In The Caribbean And In Africa Than Had Ever Happened Before In The History Of The Country And Since. - SearchQuotes

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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.

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