As a graduate student pursuing two Master degrees at Shippensburg and Clarion Universities, I illustrated a comprehensive knowledge of American history, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth century histories. One of my research projects at Shippensburg University was commemorating the town’s historic district by designing an exhibition that includes research about African American neighborhood that reside on Orange Street. Another research opportunity was conducting an oral history on my uncle who was the first African American student to integrate the public school system in North Carolina and the third black mayor of Atlanta. At the same time, I was part of a group oral history project that created a short documentary about the history
