Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education During Jim Crow

by David Eisler, Franklin Hughes, David Pilgrim

Book Overview

Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses--and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and ubiquitous indignities suffered under the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. They excelled in their studies and became accomplished in their professional fields...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629637904
• ISBN13: 9781629637907
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: PM Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"