Dr. Crystal Sanders
@profcsanders
Historian ~Speaker ~ Professor ~AKAdemic đđ ~ Author of the award-winning A Chance for Change (UNC Press 2016) & A Forgotten Migration (UNC Press 2024)
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Iâm looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant Kellie Carter Jackson!
#OnThisDay in 1951, Ruby Hurley opened the first permanent office of the NAACP in the South.
Her introduction to civil rights activism began when she helped organize Marian Andersonâs 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Four years later, she became national youth secretary
#NCCUCommunity | Tomorrow, Angus McLean Hall will be officially renamed Debra Saunders-White Residence Hall. This change is due to the advocacy of Derrick Stanfield, an NCCU alumnus who led the initiative during his tenure as SGA President. Check out CBS 17's coverage.
We commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa with an online forum. Check out our first essay of the roundtable. Amanda Joyce Hall đ„đ„
Was talking about Looby last nightâŠhe did so much underappreciated work to expand educational opportunity for African Americans in TN. #AForgottenMigration
#OnThisDay in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his âLetter from Birmingham Jailâ on scraps of paper and in the margins of newspapers. âI am in Birmingham because injustice is here,â he wrote.
Jail trusties passed his words to his lawyers, who transformed the handwriting into