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Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community.

e are 103 historically black colleges
List of historically black colleges of the United States

This list of Historically black colleges and universities lists institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community....
 (HBCU) in the United States
United States

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 today, including public and private, two-year and four-year institutions, medical schools and community colleges. Some colleges that operated for decades, closed in the 1930s and 1940s due to competition, the Great Depression
Great Depression

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 and financial difficulties.






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Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community.

Overview

There are 103 historically black colleges
List of historically black colleges of the United States

This list of Historically black colleges and universities lists institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community....
 (HBCU) in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 today, including public and private, two-year and four-year institutions, medical schools and community colleges. Some colleges that operated for decades, closed in the 1930s and 1940s due to competition, the Great Depression
Great Depression

File:International depression.pngThe Great Depression was a worldwide economic Recession starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries....
 and financial difficulties. Examples include Western University (Kansas)
Western University (Kansas)

Western University was a historically black university established as Quindaro Freedman's School at Quindaro Townsite after the American Civil War....
 and Walden University
Walden University (Tennessee)

Walden University , a historically black college, was created by northern missionaries of the Methodist Church in 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee to serve freedmen....
, Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
.

The Higher Education Act of 1965
Higher Education Act of 1965

The Higher Education Act of 1965 was legislation signed into United States law on November 8, 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda....
, as amended, defines an HBCU as: "...any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Secretary [of Education] to be a reliable authority as to the quality of training offered or is, according to such an agency or association, making reasonable progress toward accreditation."

Most HBCU's were established after the American Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
. Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)

Lincoln University is the United States' first degree-granting Historically black colleges and universities. It is located in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania....
, established in 1854, and Wilberforce University
Wilberforce University

Wilberforce University is a private, Mixed-sex education, liberal arts Historically black colleges and universities university located in Wilberforce, Ohio, that is affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church and participates in the United Negro College Fund....
, established in 1856, were two prominent institutions of higher education established for blacks prior to the American Civil War.

Other educational institutions currently have large numbers of blacks in their student body, but as they were founded (or opened their doors to African Americans) after the implementation of the Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education

'Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka', Case citation , was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v....
 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
 (the court decision which outlawed racial segregation
Racial segregation

File:Segregated cinema entrance3.jpgRacial segregation is the separation of different Race s in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a drinking fountain, using a rest room, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home....
 of public education facilities) and the Higher Education Act of 1965, they are not historically black colleges, but have been termed "predominantly black." Some historically black colleges now have non-black majorities, notably West Virginia State University
West Virginia State University

West Virginia State University is a Historically Black colleges and universities public college in Institute, West Virginia, an unincorporated area of Kanawha County, West Virginia, West Virginia, United States and suburb of Charleston, West Virginia....
, whose student body has been roughly 90 percent white
White American

White American is an umbrella term officially employed by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget and other U.S. government for the classification of United States citizens or resident aliens "having origins in any of the original peoples of Ethnic groups of Europe, the Ethnic groups of the Middle East, or Ethnic gro...
 since the mid-1960s.

See also

  • List of historically black colleges of the United States
    List of historically black colleges of the United States

    This list of Historically black colleges and universities lists institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community....
  • List of black college football classics
    List of black college football classics

    This is a list of black college football classics which take place between historically black colleges and universities which compete in college football in the United States....


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External links


  • - organization representing and supporting historically and predominantly black colleges and universities.
  • - news service to promote the journalistic work of students at predominantly black colleges and universities
  • - a career and self development magazine targeted to African-American students
  • - details about this federal initiative, including its history and recent achievements
  • @ AOL Black Voices