This volume documents the history and development of America's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) from 1837 to 2009, including their evolution from grammar and high schools to accred
From legal battles to sit-ins to freedom rides to marches, activists in the United States rose up against racial discrimination in the civil rights movement. While many books have focused on the natio
The civil rights movement in the state of Tennessee is examined in this history that proposes that African Americans have always had a civil rights movement in Tennessee, even during slavery.
Covering the period from 1909 to the present, this history of the historically black university highlights leadership, the fight against Jim Crow restraints, the university's role in the Civil Rights
Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks—slave and free—made up 20 percent of Fort Nashborough’s settlers in 1779. From these early years throu
