NRCS Black Emphasis Program

Daniel Phillips, Program Manager

To provide focus on issues of employment, promotion, training, retention and career enhancement affecting Black employees and applicants in NRCS in Indiana.

Each year USDA provides 34 full 4-year scholarships to students attending any of the 17 historically Black 1890 Institutions. The Scholars Program is open to students completing their senior year of high school and who score a minimum of 1000 on the SAT or 21 or higher on the ACT. Selected students must maintain a 3.0 GPA or better and major in a agricultural related fields, food or natural sciences, or other allied disciplines. Deadline for applications is January 15 of each year. This is a student employment program with non-competitive conversion eligibility. 

 

For more information about this program contact Daniel Phillips, Black Emphasis Program Manager for NRCS in Indiana or go to: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/faq/faq1890_cr.html
 

The following documents require Acrobat Reader

Black Emphasis Program 2008 Newsletter Volume 1 (PDF; 795 KB)
Black Emphasis Program 2009 Newsletter Volume 1 (PDF; 477 KB)
Black Emphasis Program 2009 Newsletter Volume 2 (PDF; 1262 KB) 

Black Emphasis Program Brochure (PDF; 483 KB)

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship

http://afgen.com/king.html
"I Have a Dream" (full text)

http://afgen.com/pioneer.html
African American Pioneers

http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory
Encyclopedia Britannica’s Guide to Black History

 

http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/
The African American History Challenge 

 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/lifestyles/links/bhistory_crossword/
The Black History Month Crossword Puzzle 

 

http://www.freedomcenter.org/
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

 

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
An array of information on Black History
 

100 Black Men of America
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - NAACP

Congress of Racial Equality

National Urban League

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - SNCC

A list of links that will enlighten all on the contributions of African Americans, particularly African American women.

• African Literature by Women

• Homework Center: African-American Sites

• Louisiana Black Women: An Ignored History

• Prominent African-Americans

• Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color

• http://www.historychannel.com/blackhistory/
   

• Desegregation of Central High School: Crisis at Central High

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