Segregation Scholarships WORLD Broadcast

Monday, September 16 at 9/8c on Local, USA, YouTube and the PBS app

The untold story of Black Americans in pursuit of higher education in the North when Southern graduate schools were white-only. The academics – teachers, administrators, lawyers, doctors, and other professionals – who left the South during the Great Migration returned to the Jim Crow South to apply their knowledge towards strengthening southern Black communities and to help end segregation in the United States.

SEGREGATION SCHOLARSHIPS highlights these largely unsung trailblazers and civil rights foot soldiers while illustrating the key role of education in transforming social conditions in the U.S., past and present.


Segregation Scholarships Broadcast Premiere:
Monday, September 16 at 9/8c
on Local, USA, YouTube and the PBS app

On WORLD: https://worldchannel.org/episode/local-usa-segregation-scholarships/

The broadcast special is based on the 5-part digital series, Segregation Scholarships, a co-production of B Squared Media and The WNET Group’s Chasing the Dream initiative.

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