Ada Jenkins School and African-American Education

Student Research

Student Interviews and Essays

Excerpt of Ruby Houston and Carlisle Dockery interview about the Ada Jenkins Center

Listed below are research papers and interviews on these topics written and conducted by Davidson students about the former Ada Jenkins School and the work and impact of the Ada Jenkins Center on the community. These materials are found in our Student Work Collection (RG 10-1), which details more information about these materials. Titles of materials are listed, as well as links to digitized versions of the works.

Education 340 (2015) files are the result of research into the history of the Ada Jenkins Center between the closing of the school and the establishment of community center in the 1990s.

• Student Work, EDU 340 - Interview - Alex Casper & Rosemary Klein, 2015
• Student Work, EDU 340 - Interview - Bridget Wack & Bill Johnson, 2015 
• Student Work, EDU 340 - Interview - Carlisle Dockery * Ruby Houston, 2015 
• Student Work, EDU 340 - Casper, Alex "The Ada Jenkins Center" How Davidson, NC Lost Its Black Community, " 2015 
• Student Work, EDU 340 - Interview - Julie Manz-Siek & Bonnie Brown, 2015 
• Student Work, EDU 340 - Interview - Lena Parker & Catherine Turner Green, 2015 
• Student Work, EDU 340 - Wack, Bridget "You could feel it in the halls: The influence of spirituality on Organizational Ideology at the Ada Jenkins Center," 2015 

The History 353 files are interview logs and final reports from oral history projects. The projects include a history of the Lakeside Terrace neighborhood, the Westside Stakeholders group, the Davidson Fire Department and the Ada Jenkins Center.

• Student Work, History 353 -Bishop, Donoho, Moody & Richardson - Ada Jenkins Center, 2007
• Student Work, History 353 -Donoho, Stephen - Paula Kelton and Adeline Ostwalt Interview Log, 2007