A Forgotten Migration

“A necessary addition to anti-racist bookshelves, this text goes beyond historical analysis and exposes the continuing institutional casualties of postbaccalaureate segregation.”—Library Journal, STARRED review

“A Forgotten Migration is an important contribution to understanding the structural inequalities in American higher education and larger society. By examining the historical roots of “segregation scholarships” and their implications, Sanders challenges us to reflect on the cost of preserving segregation and the steps needed to address it’s long-lasting impact . . . . Thoroughly researched and written in an engaging manner that shares moving stories.”—Forbes

“Groundbreaking . . . . Sanders uncovers a little-known chapter of American history that continues to resonate today . . . . explores the significant hurdles Black graduate students faced at northern and western universities—ranging from discrimination and racism to isolation—while the HBCUs they left behind remained underfunded and neglected by state governments.”—NewsOne

“Important . . . . Sanders tells about Black graduate students who relocated to outside the South to continue their education with segregation scholarships, revealing the many challenges they faced along the way.”—Chapelboro.
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“A timely history. . . . [A] tour de force.”—Public Books

“Sanders offers a compelling historical examination . . . [and] challenges readers to consider the intricacies and contradictions of the long struggle for educational equality in her book, which goes beyond merely providing a historical narrative of that conflict.”—Journal of African American Studies

"Sanders shifts the historical civil rights era timeline and places the earliest ‘massive white resistance to school desegregation’ thirty years earlier than widely accepted. . . . [A]ttention to this era also deepens how we understand (1) the systematic underdevelopment of public HBCUs; (2) some of the motivation and vehicles for the Great Migration; (3) the origin stories of important actors in the civil rights movement; and (4) that local cases provided both the research and consistently labor for the larger, more well-known landmark desegregation cases undertaken  by NAACP attorneys.”—American Historical Review

“Sanders has produced an excellent book that covers a long-neglected corner of African American and Southern history.”—North Carolina Historical Review

“Sanders unabashedly positions equity and inclusion at the heart of the debate about higher education in the United States. . . . [W]ell-argued. . . . Sanders’s work is not only timely but also, like all sound history, a timeless inquiry into the enduring questions of democracy and opportunity in the United States.”—Missouri Historical Review

“[E]n insistant sur les limites des bourses et sur le fait qu’elles aient été financées soit à la place, soit directement sur les fonds des universités noires publiques, Sanders prouve de manière convaincante que les segregation scholarships ont constitué ‘une forme de racisme tout aussi pernicieuse et malfaisante que la violence raciale’.”—Revue d’histoire

Translation: “[B]y emphasizing the limitations of these scholarships—and the fact that they were funded either in place of, or directly from, the funds of public Black universities—Sanders convincingly demonstrates that segregation scholarships constituted ‘a form of racism just as pernicious and malevolent as racial violence.’”—Revue d’histoire