“We Want You to Leave Home”: Crystal Sanders on Black Southerners and “Segregation Scholarships”

By Imani RadneyJuly 1, 2026

“I began to realize that the state of North Carolina was paying for Black students to go north as a way of preserving segregation. These were what I call ‘segregation scholarships’ to study elsewhere.” The post “We Want You to Leave Home”: Crystal Sanders on Black Southerners and “Segregation Scholarships” appeared first on Public Books.

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