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An HBCU is defined as any college or university, established prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which nullified all remaining Jim Crow policy), dedicated to the enrichment and advancement of freed descendants of slaves in the United States. As of the early twenty-first century, there are more than one hundred public and private HBCUs in the United States offering two- and four-year degree programs to more than 300,000 students (Gasman, 2007). This unique network of higher education employs more than 60,000 people in twenty-two states and territories, and makes up three percent of all colleges and universities in the United States (Brown, 2004). Although most HBCUs are located in the southeast and border regions, there are also institutions in California, Washington D.C., Michigan, Ohio, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (Holfester, 2021).
References
Holfester, C. (2021). Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Salem Press Encyclopedia.
The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Southern University Marching Band & Fabulous Dancing Dolls 2019
Over the last 52 years, the Dolls’ style has evolved to incorporate more complex choreography, ballet, and jazz, using their signature white gloves and parasols in routines, a nod to the New Orleans second-line while keeping the tradition of beautiful outfits and the kick line, reminiscent of the Radio City Rockettes.
Available in the Library (Course Materials)
America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Narrative History, 1837-2009, Bobby Lovett
The Mis-Education of the Negro by
Call Number: LC2717 .W6 2014ISBN: 9781612930206Publication Date: 2011-07-01This is a beautiful designed large format edition of the classic THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO by Carter G. Woodson. One of the most important books on education ever written.History of Fisk University, Eighteen-Sixty Five to Nineteen Forty-Six by
Call Number: LC2851.F52 R5ISBN: 9780817300159Publication Date: 1980-03-01Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual by
Call Number: [e-book]ISBN: 9780870238581Publication Date: 1993-07-01This biography of the African-American activist and scholar, Rayford W. Logan, discusses his life and career and examines his contributions to the history of race relations in the United States.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Facts
In the academic year 2017–18, some 48,300 degrees were conferred by HBCUs. Of the degrees conferred by HBCUs, associate’s degrees accounted for 11 percent, more than two-thirds were bachelor’s degrees (68 percent), master’s degrees accounted for 16 percent of degrees, and doctor’s degrees accounted for 5 percent. Of the degrees conferred by HBCUs, the majority (74 percent) were conferred to Black students. Black students earned 43 percent of the 5,500 associate’s degrees, 81 percent of the 32,600 bachelor’s degrees, 71 percent of the 7,700 master’s degrees, and 62 percent of the 2,500 doctor’s degrees conferred by HBCUs in 2017–18. At all levels, the majority of degrees conferred to Black students were conferred to Black female students (NCES).
Additional Readings
- America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities by One of the primary focuses of this Committee has been to make college more affordable and accessible, so that very qualified students have the opportunity to go to college. In addition to providing low and middle-income students with some much needed financial relief when paying for college, this new law also makes an historical investment of more than a half billion dollars in historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), Hispanic-serving institutions, and other minority-serving schools. HBCUs provide critical higher education opportunities for African-American, low-income, and educationally disadvantaged Americans. Historically, HBCUs have played an especially significant role in opening the doors of college to African-American students. During times of slavery and segregation, HBCUs were the only institutions that would admit African-American students. Today, these colleges and universities play an increasing role in helping students succeed in college and in strengthening our workforce. This book highlights the work that must be done to ensure that students at HBCUs and other minority serving schools have the same opportunities as students at other colleges. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.ISBN: 9781607415107Publication Date: 2010-07-01
- In the Face of Inequality by First comparative historical analysis of the organizational growth of black colleges.ISBN: 9781438456911Publication Date: 2015-07-01
- Shelter in a Time of Storm by 2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award Finalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism. Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten "second curriculum" at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.ISBN: 9781469648330Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- The Souls of Black Folk by "Jonathan Holloway introduces W. E. B. Du Bois' 1903 classic for our time, when visions of a 'post-racial' America clash with the enduring centrality of what Du Bois termed 'the problem of the color-line.' We need Du Bois now more than ever."--Adam Bradley, University of Colorado, Boulder This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on Black history, racism, and the struggles of Black Americans following emancipation. In his groundbreaking work, the author presciently writes that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line," and offers powerful arguments for the absolute necessity of moral, social, political, and economic equality. These essays on the black experience in America range from sociological studies of the African American community to illuminating discourses on religion and "Negro music," and remain essential reading in our so-called "post-racial age." A new introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway explores Du Bois's signature accomplishments while helping readers to better understand his writings in the context of his time as well as ours.ISBN: 9780300195828Publication Date: 2015-06-30