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Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism

Name: Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
SKU: 9781469661445
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Contributors:

Jelani M. Favors

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Education, Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Schools, Ethnic Studies, United States

Book Topic:

Levels, American, State & Local

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Release Date:

2020-08-01

ISBN 13:

9781469661445

Weight:

1.24 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.14 x 0.82 inches

Pages:

368

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2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award
2020 Lillian Smith Book Award
Finalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize

For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism.

Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten "second curriculum" at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.

About the Author
Favors, Jelani M.: - Jelani M. Favors is assistant professor of history at Clayton State University.

Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism

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