Jason Brouster receives Coleman A. Young Endowed Scholarship in Africana Studies

Jason Brouster, a senior majoring in Africana Studies and History, is the 2012 recipient of the Coleman A. Young Endowed Scholarship in Africana Studies.

His research interests include post-WWII African American history, particularly the effects of public policy on the black community, Civil Rights movement, Black Power movement, Labor movements and Gender. He received an associate's degree in Liberal Arts from Oakland Community College in 2007.

Jason has also worked as a research assistant for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit where he contributed to a project involving the Great Migration and the history of African American auto workers in Detroit (1900-1950).