On Friday, September 23, from 9:30 until 11 a.m., the Georgia Archives is offering the presentation “Segregated Schools in Georgia: Separate but Not Equal” by Reference Archivist Tamika Strong. This presentation is made available through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

The presentation is free and open to the public, and no registration is required. 

The presentation will cover a summary of what was discussed in the two classes held at the Georgia Archives in August, including Georgia laws, Northern philanthropy, and the comparison of white and black schools during segregation. Other areas not addressed in the classes will be covered, such as transportation and the response of the African American community during segregation. 

Tamika Strong graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies. She received her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and her Master of Archival Studies from Clayton State University. 

Strong spent 15 years serving Georgia’s citizens as a librarian in the DeKalb County Public Library System and the Georgia Public Library Service. Since becoming an archivist nearly five years ago at the Georgia Archives, she has assisted researchers by connecting them to the vast resources available at the Archives. 

The Georgia Archives is a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The Georgia Archives identifies, collects, manages, preserves, provides access to, and publicizes records and information of Georgia and its people, and assists state and local government agencies with their records management.