In honor of Black Historical past Month, the Nationwide Civil Rights Museum is sitting down with award-winning historian Crystal R. Sanders to host a digital ebook speak on her ebook, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs.
Going down on Feb. 13 at 6:00 pm CT, the occasion contains a compelling dialogue on the ignored historical past of segregation scholarships and their enduring impression on Black increased schooling. The digital ebook speak furthers the museum’s mission to spark significant conversations linking historic struggles to present points in schooling and civil rights.
“We’re thrilled to host Dr. Sanders as soon as once more and produce consideration to this important facet of American historical past,” Dr. Russ Wigginton, president of the Nationwide Civil Rights Museum stated in a press launch.
“Her work continues to make clear the enduring legacy of segregation and the lengthy struggle for instructional fairness.”
In A Forgotten Migration, Sanders explores a little-known chapter of historical past about how Southern states, earlier than Brown v. Board of Training, prevented integrating graduate packages by funding Black college students to attend faculties out of state. This follow imposed important monetary and emotional burdens on Black college students whereas reinforcing the systemic underfunding of Traditionally Black Schools and Universities (HBCUs). Sanders sheds mild on the resilience of those college students and the lasting results of instructional segregation.
The digital ebook speak is Sanders’ second look within the museum’s Guide Speak Collection, following her 2017 dialogue of A Probability for Change: Head Begin and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Wrestle. She at present works as an affiliate professor of African American Research at Emory College and a number one historian specializing in African American historical past, Black girls’s historical past, and the historical past of Black schooling.
The web occasion is free and open to the general public. Educators from Memphis Shelby County Colleges (MSCS) who attend the total session will earn skilled improvement hours in PLZ. Registration for the occasion could be executed HERE.
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