On Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, Mrs.Anderson and Mrs.Kent took a group of third graders to the University of Alabama. They went to Gorgas Library and Hoole Special Collection Library as a part of the Bicentennial proiect.

While at Gorgas Library, they were able to look at the Tuscaloosa News from the 1940’s microfiche,which is a flat piece of film that contains microphotographs of the pages of a newspaper . The researchers saw several ads from that time. For example, you could buy a dozen donuts at the A&P store on Greensboro Ave. for 19 cents!

Next, the third graders went to the Hoole Special Collection Library. The items there were very old and not everyone could touch them. They looked at a big book of original newspapers from the 1940’s called The Citizen, which was written and published by African Americans in Tuscaloosa and other cities in West Alabama.

The trip was fun for the students and they cannot wait to learn more in the future.