Local, USA

Segregation Scholarships

A production of B Squared Communications in association with The WNET Group’s Chasing the Dream initiative.

PREMIERING MONDAY, SEPTEMER 16 at 9/8c

The untold story of Black Americans in pursuit of higher education in the North when Southern graduate schools were white-only.

The academics - teachers, administrators, lawyers, doctors, and other professionals, who left the South during the Great Migration, returned to the Jim Crow South to apply their knowledge towards strengthening southern Black communities and to help end segregation in the United States. SEGREGATION SCHOLARSHIPS highlights these largely unsung trailblazers and civil rights foot soldiers while illustrating the key role of education in transforming social conditions in the U.S., past and present.