Haste To Rise
Haste To Rise 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. They…
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Haste To Rise
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. They excelled in their studies and became accomplished in their professional fields. They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses--and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and ubiquitous indignities suffered under the Jim Crow racial hierarchy.
Very few people know their stories--until now.Haste to Rise is a book about the incredible resilience and breathtaking accomplishments of those students. Many went on to both ignite and help lead the explosive civil rights movement. It was written to unearth, contextualize, and share their stories and important lessons with this generation.
Along the way we are introduced to dozens of these Jim Crow-era students, including