2024 Gunnings-Moton Lecture - Dr. Crystal Sanders
Thu, November 14, 2024 6:00 PM - Thu, November 14, 2024 7:00 PM at 236 A Erickson Hall or livestream on Zoom
This lecture is about the obstacles that Black southerners faced and overcame as they pursued graduate and professional school study during the era of legal segregation. While more than 100 public and private Black colleges existed in the South, training beyond the bachelor’s degree was almost impossible. Before 1936, there were only seven schools in the region—all private institutions—where African Americans could pursue graduate or professional school study. No Black institution conferred the Ph.D. degree until 1955. While nonblack students could pursue master’s, doctorate, and professional degrees at state-supported flagship institutions in the South, Black students remained shutout of these schools because of racism. To feign compliance with the legal doctrine of separate but equal, sixteen states authorized the use of public tax dollars for its Black residents to go out-of-state to pursue postbaccalaureate degree programs that were available in-state to white residents. This lecture explores this educational migration of Black scholars during Jim Crow.
Sponsored by the College of Education and the Graduate School.