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When millions of Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for industrialized cities in the North, many sought job opportunities in 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh’s growing industrial job market. 51��Ʒ��Ƶ faculty Alonna Carter-Donaldson and Laurence Glasco explain the movement’s impact in WQED’s digital short-form documentary, “,” which recently won a Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy Award.

Associate Professor Glasco, who joined 51��Ʒ��Ƶ’s history department in 1969, is renowned as a chronicler of Black history, race and ethnicity in American life. He has authored four books and appeared in multiple documentaries about the history of 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh and jazz. Glasco also serves as a board member for Heinz History Center and the 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation. He is a passionate advocate for documenting and preserving the history of Black neighborhoods near the University’s campus in Oakland.

Carter-Donaldson is a visiting faculty lecturer in 51��Ʒ��Ƶ’s Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Program. As a public historian, her work has centered around African American women and girls in the 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh region since the 1870s, African American genealogy, the historic preservation of African American historical sites and the intersection of race and disability. In 2021, she was selected as the inaugural Burke Family Research Fellow at the Frick 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh for her work on African Americans in 51��Ʒ��Ƶsburgh’s Gilded Age. Carter-Donaldson has previously worked as the first project scholar for the Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium’s Intersection of Race and Disability Project.