This Project was funded by a grant from the African American Civil Rights Division of the National Park Service to obtain an oral history of both the Tuskegee Institute Summer Education Program (TISEP) and the Tuskegee Institute Community Education Program (TICEP). Participants (Tutors, and Tutees) were interviewed and a transcript and a video was prepared for each interview. Access to the transcripts and videos will be provided when available. The TISEP/TICEP HISTORY AND IMPACT Project was a community outreach education program. (1965 – 1968) (concurrent with and in support of the Civil Rights Movement). This project helps to preserve the history of the Tuskegee Institute Summer Education/Community Education Programs through the memories of people who participated. The TISEP/TICEP: History and Impact Project collected and organized information, print materials and artifacts from and about the Tuskegee Institute Summer Education/Community Education Programs. The project is centered around first and secondhand account oral and community histories obtained from surviving TISEP/TICEP administrative, student and community program participants and historic and current photographs and records of work in 13 TISEP/TICEP counties (Barbour, Bullock, Coosa, Crenshaw, Elmore, Jefferson, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery, Pike, Russell & Tallapoosa). In addition, the sites of surviving TISEP/TICEP centers both on Tuskegee’s campus and in the participating counties were photographed and documented.

From left to right: Dr. Walter Bowers, Mrs. Judith V. Phillips, Dr. Percival B. Phillips, Dr. Joan Hamby Burroughs, and Mr. Calvin Austin.

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