Historically black universities and colleges in the United States

as Alcorn State University has been devoted to the outstanding education of black students. Historically established for this purpose, however Alcorn has definitely struggled against many great odds. The new history of Alcorn shows the unrelenting love and support of its community and alumni as they face the challenges making major modifications to century-old traditions. Founded in 1871, Alcorn State University is the oldest historically black land-grant institution in the United States and the second

there was animosity between the states as well as the debate over how freed slaves should be dealt with in terms of becoming citizens with the same rights as the Constitution provided for whites. The government had to come up some type of conditions which would attempt to allow the rebellious southern states back into the union. During this time period President Abraham Lincoln appointed provisional military governors to oversee the re-establishment of the southern states into the union as well as a

stereotypes in the United States sustains a widespread, structured institutional presence in culture, law, and psychology and remains one of the greatest determinants of inequality (Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995). A ubiquitous misconception is often posited that Black males, an underrepresented and highly stereotyped group on higher education campuses, utterly and unequivocally share similar experiences and backgrounds (Harper & Nichols, 2008). Conceivably, some misconceptions generated about Black male undergraduate

H istorically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are the institutions in the United States that were created for the specific purpose of educating Black American college students. With the push for integrating white institutions during the Civil Rights Movement, enrollment at many HBCUs has dropped, and their role of educating the most of the Black middle class has changed dramatically. Although the student population at the majority of HBCUs remains predominantly black, the racial diversity

stage tend to devalue black culture and people, while simultaneously deny their own black identity. The second stage referred to as Dissonance contends black individuals will exhibit anger, confusion or even ambivalence towards their socio-racial identity. The third stage of RAIS-B is Immersion/Emersion this occurs as black people immerse themselves in black culture. When black people get to this stage they tend to “idealize everything that is considered to be part of Black culture and to denigrate

training existed, such as the Institute for Colored Youth, a school started in the early 1830’s by a group of Philadelphia Quakers. A college education was also offered to a limited number of scholars at schools like Oberlin College in Ohio and Berea College in Kentucky. Between 1861 and 1870, the American Missionary Association (AMA) founded seven black colleges and 13 normal (teaching) schools. Many of these

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University. This is a historically black university. Alabama A&M is located just a few miles from where the originally was built in Normal AL. Its first president, Dr. William Hooper Council, an ex-slave, established this university. In 1875 Alabama officials used the Morrill Act of 1862 that allowed state government to establish schools for black teachers and students. Alabama A&M University was one of seventeen new land-grant black institutions established under

Universities and colleges in the United States are split up into different categories. Private, public, four years, and two years are just some of the different types of colleges in the United States. To be even more specific all colleges are broken down into two major categories: dry and wet campuses. Dry campus are basically universities that do not allow alcohol consumption on campus even if you are at the drinking age. Wet campuses are the exact opposite. Most wet campuses are huge schools where

For blacks, the history of higher education typically points to segregated education. Before the Civil War, the social system promoted the belief that blacks wouldn’t get return on their time spent in higher education. Brown and Ricard (2007) noted that most North institutions were reluctant to allow black enrollment in colleges and universities, and in the South, where slaveholder’s were still powerhouse businessmen, slaves would never be allowed to become more educated than their owners. The reluctance

scholarship to attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, there is where he first encountered the Jim Crow law. In order for him to get through school money wise, he had to help teach others in the more poor areas of Tennessee during his summer breaks. The experience of the Jim Crow law which legalized segregation between blacks and whites, is what caused him to want to become an activist. In 1885 Dubois was in Berlin studying for two years and came back to the United States eager to study African