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One of eleven black junior colleges founded in Florida after the Brown v. Board of Educationdecision, in an attempt to show that separate but equalhigher education facilities existed in Florida. All were abruptly closed after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Western University (Kansas) Quindaro, Kansas City.
Additionally, more historically black colleges and universities are offering online education programs. As of November 23, 2010, nineteen historically black colleges and universities offer online degree programs. [83] The growth in these programs is driven by partnerships with online educational entrepreneurs like Ezell Brown. [citation needed]
Atlanta University was founded on September 19, 1865, as the first HBCU in the Southern United States. Atlanta University was the nation's first graduate institution to award degrees to African Americans in the Nation and the first to award bachelor's degrees to African Americans in the South; Clark College (1869) was the nation's first four-year liberal arts college to serve African-American ...
Of the 106 land-grant institutions, all but two (the Community College of Micronesia and Northern Marianas College) are members of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (formerly the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges). Note: Historically black colleges or universities on this list are listed in ...
Wayland Seminary. West Virginia State University. Western University (Kansas) Wilberforce University. Categories: African-American history by location. Universities and colleges in the United States. African-American segregation in the United States. African Americans and education.
Spelman College is a private, historically Black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a founding member of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium. [ 2 ] Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman awarded its first college degrees in 1901 and is the oldest private historically Black liberal ...
Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen. The campus houses the Hampton University ...
On July 1, 2021, Delaware State University officially finalized its acquisition of Wesley College, a 157-year-old private institution founded by the Methodist Church in 1873. [11] This acquisition makes Delaware State the first historically Black university to acquire an institution that is not a historically Black college or university. [12]