HBCUs

HBCUs

HBCUs

Institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African American students.
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July 1 … Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private historically Black university located in southwest Atlanta,…
 
July 4 … Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee University — a private, historically Black land-grant institution in Tuskegee, AL —…
 
July 12 … From its humble beginnings in 1864 as Bible classes for newly freed Blacks to its dissolution on…
 
July 29 … Allen University was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Cokesbury, SC on July 29,…
 
August 1 … Bennett College is a historically Black liberal arts college for women located in Greensboro, NC. The institution…
 
August … Arkansas Baptist College — a private, historically Black liberal arts college in Little Rock, AR — was founded…
 
August 14 … Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU or PV) — Prairie View Agricultural & Mechanical University — is one…
 
August 30 … Savannah State University (SSU) — established as a land-grant institution for African Americans in Georgia — has…
 
August 30 … Wilberforce University (WU) is a pioneering historically Black institution whose founding before the Civil War established it…
 
September 4 … Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) — founded on September 4, 1956 in New Orleans — is…