Forever in the Path : The Black Experience at Michigan State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dagbovie, Pero G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Michigan State University--History.

Michigan State University.

African American college students--Michigan--East Lansing--History.

African American college students.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (683 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Founded in 1855 as the State Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, Michigan State University-"America's first agricultural college"-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 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. Forever in the Path offers a sweeping overview of the Black experience at Michigan State University from the 1890s through the late twentieth century. With explorations of countless personalities, important events, and key turning points, this book is a blend of intellectual history, social history, educational history, institutional history, and the African American biographical tradition. Dagbovie depicts and imagines how his numerous subjects' upbringings and experiences at the college and later university informed their futures, and how they benefitted from and contributed to MSU's vision, mission, and transformative role in the history of higher education"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Recognizably absent

Booker T. Washington and M.a.C.

Black culture imagined in collegeville

Praise song for Tuskegee

Historic commencement ceremony

Class of 1900 honorable mention

Alumnus extraordinaire

Of the highest qualities of character

Spartan superhero

From Norfolk to East Lansing

Merit counts

Of football fame

Between the wars pathfinders

It is more blessed to give than receive

Chief

Gridiron and dairy farm

In Myrtle's footsteps

Demanding equal opportunity, serving others

Of all places, in our own state school

Making of a civil rights icon

Forgotten firsts from the forties

Virtually segregated, strength in (small) numbers

Belated welcome

Early Black student movement

Fair housing is a must

Apex of the struggle

Radical departures

Black power arrives in East Lansing

McKissick's and King's progeny

Take-over

Golden age of organizing

I heard it through the grapevine

Rise and fall

Black, and green & white

Trailblazing educators

Anything but silent generationers

Excellence in mathematics, history and counseling

A century of combined service

Shattering the glass ceiling

A remarkable presidency

1989 the number.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781609177638

1609177630

9781628955248

1628955244

OCLC:

1492955971