SMITHFIELD – Dr. Crystal R. Sanders, one of the foremost experts on Black education in the United States and the South, will be in the Johnston County Museum on Saturday, October 26, 11 am, to discuss and sign copies of her new book, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs, which UNC Press published earlier this month in its John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture.
Dr. Sanders, a Clayton native, is an award-winning scholar of 20th Century American history. Her research and teaching interests include African American History, Black Women’s History, and the History of Black Education. She is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. She is also the author of A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle (UNC Press), as well as an article entitled, “’Every Child a Chance’: Black Education Prior to Desegregation through an Examination of the Johnston County Training School,” in the July 2024 issue of the North Carolina Historical Review.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
The museum is located at 329 E. Market Street in downtown Smithfield. For more information, call 919-938-5912, or send an email to heritagecenter@johnstonnc.com.
