{"product_id":"shelter-in-a-time-of-storm-how-black-colleges-fostered-generations-of-leadership-and-activism-9781469648330","title":"Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism","description":"\u003cp\u003e2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award Finalist  2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize  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.  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\u0026amp;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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45924464721973,"sku":"ByrdShop_1469648334","price":241.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781469648330.jpg?v=1787671549","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shelter-in-a-time-of-storm-how-black-colleges-fostered-generations-of-leadership-and-activism-9781469648330","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}