
A Forgotten Migration
Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs
Crystal R. Sanders(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 31. October 2024
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-4696-7979-2 (ISBN)
Description
A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of ""segregation scholarships"" awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate education in the pre-Brown v. Board of Education era. Under the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, decades earlier, southern states could provide graduate opportunities for African Americans by creating separate but equal graduate programs at tax-supported Black colleges or by admitting Black students to historically white institutions. Most did neither and instead paid to send Black students out of state for graduate education.
Crystal R. Sanders examines Black graduate students who relocated to the North, Midwest, and West to continue their education with segregation scholarships, revealing the many challenges they faced along the way. Students that entered out-of-state programs endured long and tedious travel, financial hardship, racial discrimination, isolation, and homesickness. With the passage of Brown in 1954, segregation scholarships began to wane, but the integration of graduate programs at southern public universities was slow. In telling this story, Sanders demonstrates how white efforts to preserve segregation led to the underfunding of public Black colleges, furthering racial inequality in American higher education.
Crystal R. Sanders examines Black graduate students who relocated to the North, Midwest, and West to continue their education with segregation scholarships, revealing the many challenges they faced along the way. Students that entered out-of-state programs endured long and tedious travel, financial hardship, racial discrimination, isolation, and homesickness. With the passage of Brown in 1954, segregation scholarships began to wane, but the integration of graduate programs at southern public universities was slow. In telling this story, Sanders demonstrates how white efforts to preserve segregation led to the underfunding of public Black colleges, furthering racial inequality in American higher education.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Product notice
Cloth
Illustrations
11 halftones, 1 maps
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-7979-2 (9781469679792)
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A Forgotten Migration
Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs
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The University of North Carolina Press
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Crystal R. Sanders is associate professor of African American studies at Emory University.