National Award-Winning Historian,
Author, and Educator
Dr. Jelani M. Favors is a passionate educator, an award-winning author, and the Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University where he also serves as the inaugural director for the Center of Excellence for Social Justice. He has received major fellowships in support of his research that includes an appointment as a Humanities Writ Large Fellow at Duke University in 2013, and he was an inaugural recipient of the Mellon HBCU Fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke in 2009.
For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism.
