With his historic win in Georgia to become the state’s first Black senator, the Rev. Raphael Warnock reinforced a narrative building over the past few years: A new generation of leaders has emerged from the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities.
Some civil rights legends attended HBCUs in part because they were not permitted to attend most majority-white universities. And several have died recently: the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C. T. Vivian and Rep. John Lewis, all significant figures in the history of the civil rights movement.
At the same time, a new surge of racial unrest, peaking last summer after the police killing of George Floyd on a Minneapolis street, elevated new leaders to respond to the crisis.
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