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Shelter in a Time of Storm

How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism

by Jelani M. Favors
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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.

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    April 16, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9781469648354

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      • ISBN: 9781469648354

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      • ISBN: 9781469648354
      • File size: 12934 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from March 1, 2019

      Favors (history, Clayton State Univ.) is passionate about his subject--the role of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in fostering black activism--and his larger theme of eradicating racism in America and fulfilling the promise of democracy. The author presents the emergence of activism on seven campuses in five states, from the mid-19th century to the present. With the end of slavery resulting in Jim Crow oppression rather than full citizenship, black Americans looked to their colleges to foster racial consciousness that by the 1950s and 1960s led to the civil rights and Black Power movements moving toward a more just society. Favors has extensively researched personal papers, journals, and college archives to portray the individuals and organizations that effected change. He shows how university leaders nurtured their students and their dreams while sometimes tamping down their imprudent militancy. The author expresses hope for the continuing impact of HBCUs yet recognizes that opportunities for black faculty and students at predominately white institutions and generations of underfunding threaten the future of HBCUs. VERDICT This vivid exploration of an important topic is a must-read for anyone interested in higher education and HBCUs in particular.--Elizabeth Hayford, formerly with Associated Coll. of the Midwest, Evanston, IL

      Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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