List Of Historically Black Colleges Of The United States
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historically black colleges and universities 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 the African-American community. ...
(HBCUs) includes institutions of
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that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the black community.
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leads the nation with the number of HBCUs, followed by
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, then
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. The list of closed colleges includes many that, because of state laws, were racially segregated. In other words, those colleges are not just "historically" black, they were entirely black for as long as they existed.


Current institutions

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Defunct institutions

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