Collection Title: Jackson Purchase Oral History Project – Schools and Education
Series Number: OH233
Interviewee: Barnes, Stanford
Interviewer: Jordan, Thelma
Date interviewed: 1979 November 16
Processed by: Hannah O'Daniel
Date processed: 2014 January 23
Description: 1 sound disc (23 minutes)
Abstract: Barnes discusses the influential high school club, Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA), which he was active in as a teacher in Kentucky. He faced discrimination as an African American advisor for the club that eventually led him to resign from the position. He was concerned that his students would have limited opportunities due to the VICA supervisors' prejudice against him.
Biographical / Historical note: Barnes was born on May 19, 1924 in Virginia. He received his elementary through secondary education in Virginia before moving to Kentucky in 1962. He served in the United States Army during World War II and Korean War. As a high school teacher in Paducah, Kentucky, he was very active in the school's chapter of the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA). He died on July 18, 1998 and is buried in Paducah.
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Subject Headings / Descriptors:
Barnes, Stanford, 1924-1998.
African Americans – Kentucky – History – 20th century.
Kentucky – Race relations.
Education – Kentucky – Paducah – History.
Vocational education – Kentucky.
Vocational teachers – Kentucky.
VICA (Association)
