Shaw Rising
- 2020
- 57m
Shaw University started in December 1865 with a bible class for newly freed slaves in Raleigh, North Carolina. Fighting vicious prejudice in the aftermath of the Civil War, Shaw rises to bec... Read allShaw University started in December 1865 with a bible class for newly freed slaves in Raleigh, North Carolina. Fighting vicious prejudice in the aftermath of the Civil War, Shaw rises to become a co-educational college, a medical school, law school and divinity school. But Jim Cr... Read allShaw University started in December 1865 with a bible class for newly freed slaves in Raleigh, North Carolina. Fighting vicious prejudice in the aftermath of the Civil War, Shaw rises to become a co-educational college, a medical school, law school and divinity school. But Jim Crow and "separate but equal" segregation laws force the University to curtail its ambitions... Read all