Segregation Scholarships | Traveling North from Jim Crow South
Season 8
Episode 13
About the Episode
Black Americans, who pursued a post-baccalaureate education in the North, traveled by train to their respective colleges and universities from the South. But what they endured on the trains, and in the waiting rooms, would be considered a less than second-class citizen experience.
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