Brighten Corners and Widen Circles:
College Student Advocacy in the Sixties through the 3Ts Movement.
Brighten Corners and Widen Circles:
College Student Advocacy in the Sixties through the 3Ts Movement.
Brighten Corners and Widen Circles:
College Student Advocacy in the Sixties through the 3Ts Movement
Author, “Dean” Bert Phillips, Co-Author Judith Phillips
To Be Published soon.
About the Book
This website has been created by the 3Ts team to highlight the soon to be published book “Brighten Corners and Widen Circles: College Student Advocacy in the Sixties through the 3Ts Movement,” the upcoming Oral History Project and other histories, narratives, remembrances, and commentaries related to the 3Ts movement. The stories shared in Brighten Corners and Widen Circles, the Oral History and this 3Ts Movement website will encourage you to intensify your battle for equity, fairness, and justice for all Americans.
Authors Corner
Dr. P. Bertrand Phillips
The 3Ts Movement was created by Dr. P. Bertrand Phillips. Phillips was then the dean of students and a professor of education and psychology at Tuskegee Institute. Phillips was central in discovering the funding for programs and creating opportunities for other colleges and universities to join in the 3 Ts Movement.
Judith Phillips
Judith Phillips was an active participant of the 3 Ts Movement and is the co-author of Brighten Corners and Widen Circles.
Informal List of Contributors to “Brighten Corners and Widen Circles” – To Date
- Billy Abrams
- Calvin R. Austin
- Paul Benson
- Wilson Blount
- Walter Bowers, II
- Reginald (Reggie) Braddock
- Florida Ingram Brown
- Joan Hamby Burroughs
- Janice Renae Green Crump
- Milton C. Davis
- Lucenia Williams Dunn
- Diane Eickhoff
- David Fuller for Steve Fuller
- Fred Green
- Le Verne Greene
- Floyd Griffin
- Charles H. Griner
- Chester Higgins
- Gail Jothen
- Michael Jothen
- Sharlene Kranz
- Charles Larson
- Roosevelt Lewis
- James McJunkins
- Roscoe Moore
- Ruben Munday
- Lee Norrgard
- Wendell Howton Paris
- Reynauld L. Smith
- Patti Grace Smith
- Susan Jahnke Snookal
- John Stephens
- Bessie McDowell Stephens
- Jeff Strate
- Shirley Taylor Streeter
- Palmer Sullins
- Barbara Sullivan
- Lucy Thilquist Thomas
- David Wren
- Lauri Young
Supporters
- Richard Allen
- Bruce King
- JoAnn Mants
- Guy Trammel
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About the Movement
About the Movement
The 3Ts Movement, was a college student-led community outreach movement in Alabama’s Black Belt from 1963 to 1968. This movement consisted of 3 separate programs at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) during the height of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement. In 1963 the 3Ts movement began with Tuskegee Institute students. Later in the summer of 1965 they were joined by students from St. Olaf and students from 39 other colleges and universities. This amplified the movement towards integration with programs supported by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity and the Federal Student Work-Study Program.
“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
The 1960s in the United States of America was a stirring and challenging time. “Fairness and Equality Now,” “Black is Beautiful” and “Black Power,” were confronting “Whiteness is Rightness,” “White Supremacy,” and “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever.”
Sit-ins and Freedom Rides helped to ensure Civil Rights and Voting Rights laws. The 3Ts Movement’s imprint remains in 12 Black Belt Counties in the State of Alabama. There are many stories of college students and secondary and elementary school children, and community members who stood up against suppression of their inalienable rights and freedoms as American citizens. These students practiced non-violence even as they were threatened and harassed by the Ku Klux Klan and white vigilantes.
The college students of the 3Ts Movement were fighting for poverty eradication, quality education and human dignity and equal rights.
The stories shared in Brighten Corners and Widen Circles, the Oral History and this 3Ts Movement website will encourage you to intensify your battle for equity, fairness, and justice for all Americans.
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
Maya AngelouWelcome to the 3Ts Movement website! This website shares significant actions and accomplishments of college students of the sixties. We encourage you to follow Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s admonition:
“The Time is Always Right to Do What is Right.”
Every day of our lives, we can take action to help others.
The Time was Right in 1963 to create the 3Ts, a dynamic educational and service-based community action Movement.
A Letter to take Action…
“The Time was Right,” for Booker T. Washington to write his famous letter to George Washington Carver, another formerly enslaved person, ending with “I cannot offer you money, position or fame. The first two you have. The last, from the place you now occupy, you will no doubt achieve. These things I now ask you to give up. I offer you in their place – work – hard, hard work – the challenge of bringing people from degradation, poverty and waste to full manhood.”
George Washington Carver knew “The Time was Right” to leave Iowa and respond to Booker T. Washington’s letter by simply saying, “I am coming.” Tuskegee Institute and the world benefitted from the many miracles he created in his Laboratories with the peanut and soybean being the most famous.
The 3Ts Movement was rooted in trying always to do what is right. The movement reached out beyond the gates of Tuskegee Institute campus and followed in the footsteps of our historic earlier leaders and icons like Lewis Adams, Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver.
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
Booker T. Washington“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.”
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