“Segregation Scholarships” is a digital, mini-documentary series that highlights the untold story of African Americans who traveled to the North in pursuit of advanced academic degrees when Southern graduate schools were white-only.

Instead of making the Great Migration a one-way trip, these academics – teachers, administrators, lawyers, doctors and other professionals – returned to the Jim Crow South, where they applied their knowledge towards strengthening southern Black communities and helped to end segregation in the United States. The story of these largely unsung trailblazers and civil rights foot soldiers illustrates the key role of education in transforming social conditions in the U.S., past and present.

“Segregation Scholarships” is a production of B Squared Communications in association with The WNET Group’s Chasing the Dream initiative.

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