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November 13, 2019
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c ourteSy d r . a udrey t errrell i nStitute
Fourteen students from Parkrose, DeLaSalle North and Jefferson high schools visit Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama as part of a just
concluded Black College Tour of historic black colleges and historic sites organized by Portland educator and mentor Dr. Audrey Terrell and the
Dr. Audrey Terrell Institute, a non-profit geared to helping young people meet life challenges and overcome obstacles.
Black College Tour Enriches Lives
Young people
explore paths to
success
Fourteen black students from
Portland area high schools explored
paths to achieving their dreams by
visiting historically black colleges
and universities and other historic
sites last month as part of a Black
College Tour sponsored by the Dr.
Audrey Terrell Institute, a local non-
profit helping people meet life chal-
lenges and overcoming obstacles.
The students from Parkrose,
DeLaSalle North and Jefferson high
schools toured Tuskegee University
in Tuskegee, Ala., and Morehouse
College, Clark Atlanta University,
and Spelman College in Atlanta.
They also attended the Morehouse
and Spelman homecoming celebra-
tions, crossed the Edmund Pettus
Bridge in Selma, Ala., and toured the
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta
Scott King tomb, preserved within
the Martin Luther King Jr. Nation-
al Historic Site in Atlanta, and the
Ebernezer Baptist Church, also in
Atlanta and where Rev. Martin Lu-
ther King preached.
A special thanks went out to the
parents who helped make the tour
a success, including Babatunde
Azubuike, program coordinator of
Freedom To Thrive; Tina Turner
Morfitt, president of the Oregon Co-
alition of Black Trade Unionists; Dr.
Rosemary Daniels, retired principal
and a supervisor of teachers at the
University of Portland; Tony Brown,
host of Straighttalk TV and to Nike.
The Dr. Audrey Terrell Institute
is making plans for the next Black
College Tour to be in North Carolina
in 2020.