Haste To Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education during Jim Crow

A history of the Ferris Institute and its African American students during the Jim Crow era. Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. Haste to Rise is a book about the incredible resiliency and breathtaking accomplishments of those students. There is also an in-depth look into the life and work of the Institute''s founder, Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, a racial justice pioneer who created educational opportunities for women, international students, and African Americans.

• | Author: David Pilgrim, Franklin Hughes
• | Publisher: PM Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 23, 2020
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781629637907
• | ISBN-10: 1629637904