Segregation Scholarships | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 13 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Black Americans forced to go North for advanced degrees return home to fight Jim Crow in the South.
The untold story of Black Americans in pursuit of higher education in the North when Southern graduate schools were white-only. The academics, who left during the Great Migration, returned to the Jim Crow South to strengthen their communities and to help end segregation. SEGREGATION SCHOLARSHIPS highlights the trailblazers while illustrating the role of education in transforming social conditions.
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Segregation Scholarships | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 13 | 1m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
The untold story of Black Americans in pursuit of higher education in the North when Southern graduate schools were white-only. The academics, who left during the Great Migration, returned to the Jim Crow South to strengthen their communities and to help end segregation. SEGREGATION SCHOLARSHIPS highlights the trailblazers while illustrating the role of education in transforming social conditions.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(soft music) DR. SANDERS: Education has always been central to the black freedom struggle.
TINA McDUFFIE: For years, under America's system of segregation, Black Americans who wanted advanced degrees had to travel north.
SANDERS: Traveling while Black during the age of Jim Crow, was often an experience in humiliation.
What cities will I be able to buy a cup of coffee and not be lynched?
So when African Americans are demanding the opportunity for graduate study, what they're saying to southern state governments is "We are citizens."
And in the same way that you provide opportunities for white Americans, we demand opportunities for ourselves.
TINA: With advanced degrees, they often returned home.
SANDERS: It's graduate and professional education that creates a class of race leaders, a professional class of doctors, and lawyers, and attorneys, and pharmacists, and teachers and nurses, who are gonna serve Black communities, who are gonna lead Black communities.
This is a story about Black determination and Black perseverance.
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Segregation Scholarships | Investing in Black Education
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Clip: S8 Ep13 | 1m 14s | The scholarships provided educational opportunity for Black Americans while maintaining segregation. (1m 14s)
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Segregation Scholarships | Rosenwald Schools
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Clip: S8 Ep13 | 1m 32s | The Rosenwald Schools were built to educate young Black children in the segregated American South. (1m 32s)
Segregation Scholarships | Traveling North from Jim Crow South
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Clip: S8 Ep13 | 1m 28s | Traveling by train, Black Americans had to endure second-class citizen accommodations and attitudes. (1m 28s)
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