By Tells the little-known story of “segregation scholarships” awarded by states in the U.S. South to Black students seeking graduate education in the pre–Brown v. Board of Education era. Examines Black graduate students who relocated to the North, Midwest, and West to continue their education with segregation scholarships, revealing the many challenges they faced along the way. Demonstrates how white efforts to preserve segregation led to the underfunding of public Black colleges, furthering racial inequality in American higher education. Read more.