• The Path to Founding an HBCU

  • Oct 31 2016
  • Length: 14 mins
  • Podcast
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The Path to Founding an HBCU

  • Summary

  • Born into slavery, William Hooper Councill founded one of the nation's first HBCUs, Alabama A&M University. Negotiating the racial politics of Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow was dangerous work. Councill was a peer of Booker T. Washington's and is remembered for his accommodating stance toward whites. His complicated story helps us understand the times he lived in and the legacy of HBCUs.
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