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The History of African-American education deals with the public and private schools at all levels used by African Americans in the United States and for the related policies and debates. Black schools, also referred to as "Negro schools" and "colored schools", were racially segregated schools in the United States that originated in the ...
Phillis Wheatley frontispiece 1834. During the era of slavery in the United States, the education of enslaved African Americans, except for religious instruction, was discouraged, and eventually made illegal in most of the Southern states. After 1831 (the revolt of Nat Turner ), the prohibition was extended in some states to free blacks as well.
v. t. e. Historically black colleges and universities ( HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving African Americans. [ 1] Most of these institutions were founded during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War and are ...
Rosenwald, his nonprofit, The Rosenwald Fund, and members of the Black community raised funding for the construction of more than 5,000 schools, teacher homes and shops between 1912 and 1932 ...
The role of slavery at American colleges and universities has been a recent focus of historical investigation and controversy. Enslaved Africans labored to build institutions of higher learning in the United States, and the slave economy was involved in funding many universities. [1] Enslaved persons were used to build academic buildings and ...
v. t. e. This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community. [ 1][ 2] Alabama leads the nation with the number of HBCUs, followed by North Carolina, then Georgia.
Category:Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States. Category. : Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States. United States portal. This includes schools that were de jure (by law) segregated prior to the full enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education . Pages sorted by state.
Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States (3 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Historically black schools" The following 83 pages are in this category, out of 83 total.