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Article: A Long, Protracted Struggle.(need for better colleges for African Americans, African American art)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- March 29, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Cox, Matthews & Associates. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The long and protracted struggle to bring Black colleges up to speed with their White counterparts is one of those stories that just will not go away. And why should it given the fact that higher education so effectively mirrors our society as a whole. As long as there are disparities in every other aspect of the social and economic fabric of society, the academy will not be spared.
What is not mentioned, but is sure to be on the minds of many in positions of' power, is that HBCUs provide reminders that are too visible and too taxing on our collective psyche about our unresolved legacy of separate but equal systems of education.
So here were are in 2001 ...