T.I.S.E.P. or the Tuskegee Institute Summer Education Program, was the brain-child of Bertram Phillips, Dean of Students at Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama. The program employed 1,000 college students to fight illiteracy and promote education throughout rural sections of 1965 Alabama. The program also produced a newspaper, "The T.I.S.E.P. Reporter", covering the program activities at it's various sites.
Additionally, the student workers in T.I.S.E.P. were active in Black Liberation Movement protests and integration efforts in "Jim Crow" Alabama. |
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