Jelani M. Favors - Shelter in a Time of Storm
Sunday, Dec 08, 2019 3:00 PM
Location:
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
101 Auburn Avenue, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Clayton State University associate professor Jelani M. Favors constructs an extraordinarily researched history of Black colleges and universities’ influence on Black activism in his new book “Shelter in a Time of Storm.”
About the Book:
For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism.
In “Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism,” Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten "second curriculum" at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.
About the Author:
Jelani M. Favors is assistant professor of history at Clayton State University.
