A History of "Segregation Scholarships" and the Impact on HBCUs

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Between 1921 and 1948, every Southern and border state, except Delaware, set up scholarship programs to send Black students out of state for graduate study rather than admit them to historically white public colleges or build graduate programs in the public HBCUs. While the individual Black students often benefited from graduate education at top-tier universities, the segregation scholarships created hardships for those same students and took money that could have been used to build up the public HBCUs. Joining me in this episode is Dr. Crystal R. Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies, at Emory University and author of A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs.

 

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THE GENESIS

Segregation Scholarships​

“Segregation Scholarships” is a digital, mini-documentary series that highlights the untold story of African Americans who traveled to the North in pursuit of advanced academic degrees when Southern graduate schools were white-only.
Instead of making the Great Migration a one-way trip, these academics – teachers, administrators, lawyers, doctors and other professionals – returned to the Jim Crow South, where they applied their knowledge towards strengthening southern Black communities and helped to end segregation in the United States. The story of these largely unsung trailblazers and civil rights foot soldiers illustrates the key role of education in transforming social conditions in the U.S., past and present.

 

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TRAVELING WHILE BLACK

 

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RETURNING HOME

 

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ENDURING LEGACIES

 

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THE FUTURE