Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Fisk was founded after the end of the Civil War by missionaries of the Congregational Church in New England in order to educate newly freed slaves.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The African American Civil Rights movement started when African Americans started speaking up for themselves, saying that they would not take any more harassment, and thus, begin the fight for equality and to end racism.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities
the oldest African American college in Alabama is Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was started by Booker T. Washington and had inventor George Washington Carver as a professor. Alabama has more African American colleges than any other state.
Following the abolition of slavery, numerous schools began to be set up that catered to African American students. By 1920, several historically black colleges had been started. In the 1950s, the Supreme Court decision in Brown versus Board of Education, desegregated American schools. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reinforced the civil rights of African Americans and other minorities. In addition, Affirmative Action legislation applied quotas to previously racially segregated colleges and universities.
African American freemasonry started in Boston, MA in the US.
African Americans started their own colleges.
Carter Woodson