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Article: Education, Higher
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- Dictionary of American History
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EDUCATION, HIGHER
This entry includes 4 subentries:
African American Colleges
Colleges and Universities
Denominational Colleges
Women's Colleges
African American Colleges
The institutions of higher education currently referred to as the historically black colleges originated in the mid-nineteenth century as a result of the enslavement of African Americans. Because of the numerous slave revolts by literate slaves, literacy was denied most slaves in the South and formal education was prohibited. Throughout the North, free African Americans prior to and after the Civil War had limited opportunities for collegiate education. With the exception of Oberlin College in Ohio, which began admitting ...