Upcoming Tour Dates with Crystal Sanders, author of “A Forgotten Migration”
Dr. Crystal R. Sanders, one of the foremost experts on Black education in the United States and the South, will be touring this fall (in-person, unless noted as virtual) to discuss her new book A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs, which UNC Press will publish in its John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture on October 15.
A Forgotten Migration uncovers the hidden history of what Sanders aptly calls “segregation scholarships,” which were devised as a way to comply with Plessy v Ferguson, to forestall funding for HBCUs, and perhaps most important, to drive ambitious Black scholars out of southern states. 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.
“This book is essential reading for all who have both the curiosity and courage to wade deeply into the troubled waters of this nation’s history relative to the education of Black Americans. Well researched, gracefully written, and urgently needed, do yourself a favor and read this book!”
—Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
UPCOMING 2024 DATES
Sept. 26 (Pittsburgh, PA): The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), book-signing, 6:30pm
Oct 9 (Washington, DC): Busboys and Poets, in-conversation with Marcia Chatelain, 7pm
Oct. 10 (Baltimore, MD): Red Emma’s, in-conversation with Ashley Robertson, 7pm
Oct. 19 (Atlanta, GA): Auburn Avenue Library, 1pm
Oct. 21 (Atlanta, GA): Atlanta History Center, in-conversation with Joseph Crespino, 7pm (Ticketed)
Oct. 24 (Chapel Hill, NC): UNC Chapel Hill’s Center for the Study of the American South, 4:30pm
Oct. 26 (Smithfield, NC): Johnston County Museum, 11 am
Oct. 30 (Jackson, MS): Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s “History is Lunch”, Noon
Nov. 1 (Virtual): Malaprop’s Bookstore, 6:30pm Eastern
Nov. 8 (West Long Branch, NJ): Monmouth University
Nov. 14 (East Lansing, MI): Michigan State University
Nov. 21 (Durham, NC): Duke University
“This book nobly moves beyond the barbarity of racism to penetrate an unsettling part of the past that desperately needs to be highlighted. Audiences throughout the nation will devour this narrative.”
—Stefan M. Bradley, author of Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
A Forgotten Migration
Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs
Crystal R. Sanders
University of North Carolina Press | $27.95 paper | On-Sale October 15, 2024
Crystal R. Sanders is an award-winning historian of the United States in the twentieth century. Her research and teaching interests include African American History, Black Women’s History, and the History of Black Education. She is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs and A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle.