Derrick E. White
Historian and scholar of Black Studies
Media
Mark Anthony Neal speaks with Derrick White about the Institute of the Black World. White is a visiting associate professor teaching in the Department of History at Dartmouth College. White is the author of “The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s”.
Teaching Related Media
Black Sporting Experience Website.
The course website identifies and briefly chronicles the first generation of African American athletes at Dartmouth College. Students enrolled in the Spring 2015 course African American Studies 23 – The Black Sporting Experience – compiled the information and images used on the following pages. In total, the fifteen athletes identified represented a wide range of experiences. What emerges from the students’ research is that the color line of the early 20th century at an elite institution such as Dartmouth was constantly contested and redrawn. The fluidity and permanence of the color line allowed some athletes to thrive, while shutting out others. The following pages detail the lives and stories of these athletes.
After Tenn. State and Howard’s wins over FBS teams in Sept 2017, I created a story map of earlier HBCU victories against PWIs.