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Under Plessy v. Ferguson, in the days before desegregation, southern states were able to fund the graduate education of Black students by forming separate-but-equal programs at tax-supported HBCU’s or having them attend a historically white university in their state. Instead, these “segregation scholarships" ended up paying for many of these African American graduate students to be sent away by relocating them in the North, out West, and in the Heartland of the U.S., thus robbing Black colleges of this influx in financial support. After Brown v. Board of Education passed and ended segregation, these scholarships started to decline but with no consorted effort to institutionalize graduate programs at public Black colleges in the South, which increased the racial disparity in American higher education.
Dr. Crystal R. Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Emory University, examines how the efforts to preserve segregation led to the underfunding of Black colleges in her new book, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs," just published by The University of North Carolina Press on October 15, 2024. Dr. Sanders also brings a spotlight to the myriad challenges faced by these Black graduate students who were far from home including isolation, financial hardship, and discrimination. "A Forgotten Migration" is part of the distinguished John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture compiled by UNC Press to publish “…pathbreaking books informed by several disciplines…”
Learn more about Dr. Sanders here: crystalrsanders.com
Get the book here: uncpress.org/book/9781469679808/a-forgotten-migration
"Left of Black," Duke University's intrepid web series on Black Studies and the Black Arts, begins its milestone fifteenth season! "Left of Black" is the 2024 Gold Davey Award-winning and 2023 Webby Award-nominated series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars, along with musicians and artists, created and hosted by the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal.
Directed, produced & edited by Eric Barstow, M.F.A.
Camera and gaffing by Melissa Looney and Miles Tiller
Dive Into the Archive: leftofblack.org
Under Plessy v. Ferguson, in the days before desegregation, southern states were able to fund the graduate education of Black students by forming separate-but-equal programs at tax-supported HBCU’s or having them attend a historically white university in their state. Instead, these “segregation scholarships" ended up paying for many of these African American graduate students to be sent away by relocating them in the North, out West, and in the Heartland of the U.S., thus robbing Black colleges of this influx in financial support. After Brown v. Board of Education passed and ended segregation, these scholarships started to decline but with no consorted effort to institutionalize graduate programs at public Black colleges in the South, which increased the racial disparity in American higher education.
Dr. Crystal R. Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Emory University, examines how the efforts to preserve segregation led to the underfunding of Black colleges in her new book, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs," just published by The University of North Carolina Press on October 15, 2024. Dr. Sanders also brings a spotlight to the myriad challenges faced by these Black graduate students who were far from home including isolation, financial hardship, and discrimination. "A Forgotten Migration" is part of the distinguished John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture compiled by UNC Press to publish “…pathbreaking books informed by several disciplines…”
Learn more about Dr. Sanders here: crystalrsanders.com
Get the book here: uncpress.org/book/9781469679808/a-forgotten-migration
"Left of Black," Duke University's intrepid web series on Black Studies and the Black Arts, begins its milestone fifteenth season! "Left of Black" is the 2024 Gold Davey Award-winning and 2023 Webby Award-nominated series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars, along with musicians and artists, created and hosted by the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal.
Directed, produced & edited by Eric Barstow, M.F.A.
Camera and gaffing by Melissa Looney and Miles Tiller
