Forever in the Path

The Black Experience at Michigan State University

Pero G Dagbovie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

682 Seiten

2025
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
9781611864946 (ISBN)

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Forever in the Path: The Black Experience at Michigan State University offers a sweeping overview of the Black experience at America’s first agricultural college from the 1890s through the late twentieth century. In exploring the personalities, important events, and key turning points of Black life at the university, this book deftly blends intellectual history, social history, educational history, institutional history, and the African American biographical tradition. Pero G. Dagbovie depicts and imagines how his numerous subjects’ upbringings and experiences at the institution informed their futures, and how they benefitted from and contributed to MSU’s vision, mission, and transformative role in the history of higher education.
Michigan State University—founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan—has a fascinating past, a history shaped by vacillating local and national contexts as well as by people from different walks of life. The first Black students arrived on campus during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the first full-time Black faculty member was hired in the late 1940s. Before and after the modern Civil Rights Movement, African Americans from various backgrounds were transformed by MSU while also profoundly contributing in vital ways to the institution’s growth and evolving identity.

Pero G. Dagbovie is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of History, the vice provost for graduate and postdoctoral studies, and dean of the Graduate School at Michigan State University. His scholarship centers on African American history, twentieth-century U.S. history, the history of the U.S. historical profession, and the philosophy of history. He has authored seven books and numerous articles and essays, is the former editor of the Journal of African American History, and is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Michigan Historical Review, Modern American History, Journal of Black Studies, and Journal for the Study of Radicalism. Active in public history, Dagbovie served as a scholar consultant for the And Still We Rise permanent exhibit at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Park Service’s National Capital Region History Program (Northeast Capital Parks—East). He has also served as a consultant for history and social studies curriculum development with public school systems in Michigan and has led numerous teaching history workshops and summer institutes for secondary-school history teachers.

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Recognizably Absent
Chapter 2. Booker T. Washington and M.A.C.
Chapter 3. Black Culture Imagined in Collegeville
Chapter 4. Praise Song for Tuskegee
Chapter 5. Historic Commencement Ceremony
Chapter 6. Class of 1900 Honorable Mention
Chapter 7. Alumnus Extraordinaire
Chapter 8. Of the Highest Qualities of Character
Chapter 9. Spartan Superhero
Chapter 10. From Norfolk to East Lansing
Chapter 11. Merit Counts
Chapter 12. Of Football Fame
Chapter 13. Between the Wars Pathfinders
Chapter 14. It Is More Blessed to Give than Receive
Chapter 15. Chief
Chapter 16. Gridiron and Dairy Farm
Chapter 17. In Myrtle’s Footsteps
Chapter 18. Demanding Equal Opportunity, Serving Others
Chapter 19. And to Happen, of All Places, in Our Own State School
Chapter 20. Making of a Civil Rights Icon
Chapter 21. Forgotten Firsts from the Forties
Chapter 22. Virtually Segregated, Strength in (Small) Numbers
Chapter 23. Belated Welcome
Chapter 24. Early Black Student Movement
Chapter 25. Fair Housing Is a Must
Chapter 26. Apex of the Struggle
Chapter 27. Radical Departures
Chapter 28. Black Power Arrives in East Lansing
Chapter 29. McKissick’s and King’s Progeny
Chapter 30. Takeover
Chapter 31. Golden Age of Organizing
Chapter 32. I Heard It through the Grapevine
Chapter 33. Rise and Fall
Chapter 34. Black and Green and White
Chapter 35. Trailblazing Educators
Chapter 36. Anything but Silent Generationers
Chapter 37. Excellence in Mathematics, History, and Counseling
Chapter 38. A Century of Combined Service
Chapter 39. Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Chapter 40. A Historic Presidency
Chapter 41. 1989, the Number
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	76
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1728 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-13	9781611864946 / 9781611864946
Zustand	Neuware