Creating Community: Black Graduate Students' Experiences at Indiana University's School of Education, 1960–1980

• In Event: 45.031 - Community Preservation and Historical Memory: Education and Resistance Unveiled

Abstract

From the late 1950s and well into the 1960s, many southern universities would find ways to pay black students to go to school in the North, rather than integrate a southern university. Because Indiana University was the southernmost Big Ten school, many black students taught in the south during the school year and traveled north in the summer to earn their graduate degrees from the School of Education. Extending from a larger oral history project on African American graduate student alumni from the Indiana University School of Education, this paper uses oral history to add to our understanding of community, resistance, migration, and educational success in the history of Indiana University.

Author

• Kristen Michelle Hengtgen, Indiana University - Bloomington