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Known as "Alabama Lutheran Academy and Junior College" until 1981; It was the only historically black college among the ten colleges and universities in the Concordia University System. The college ceased operations at the completion of the Spring 2018 semester, citing years of financial distress and declining enrollment. Daniel Payne College
Some historically black colleges and universities now have non-black majorities, including West Virginia State University and Bluefield State University, whose student bodies have had large white majorities since the mid-1960s. [13] [67] [68]
With strong support from the black community and Northern churches, the new system grew rapidly in 1868 and 1869 to reach parity with the established white school system. Although federal funding ended in 1870, black schools multiplied until full state funding was assured in 1882. [22]
People by historically black university or college in the United States (48 C, 2 P) Historically black Christian universities and colleges (1 C, 4 P) Historically black universities and colleges in Florida (5 C, 4 P)
Historically black universities and colleges in the United States (67 C, 105 P) Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States (3 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Historically black schools"
Gateway to Opportunity: A History of the Community College in the United States (2011) Brint, S., & Karabel, J. The Diverted Dream: Community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 1900–1985. Oxford University Press. (1989). Cohen, Arthur M. and Florence B. Brawer.
[107] [108] The title of the report refers to Abraham Sims, who was enslaved by the Furman family but was referred to as an "ex-slave" in a 1890 photo of the Furman home, the search for information on Abraham is used as an analogy for the reports wider goal of searching for the whole history of Furman University. [107]
First African-American to attend the University of Alabama: Autherine Lucy. [36] She and Pollie Anne Myers had previously been the first black students admitted to the university, but had to undergo a three-year legal campaign to attend, and the university then found a pretext to block Myers's eventual admittance. [37]