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Article: The First Black Faculty Members at the Nation's Highest-Ranked Liberal Arts Colleges
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- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- October 31, 2004
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
10-31-2004
THROUGH MOST OF the history of our country, black people, almost without
exception, were not considered educable at the college or graduate school
level. Driven by strong and prevailing shared values about the biological
and mental inferiority of the Negro, virtually all institutions of higher
learning in the United States adopted a universal rule of racial exclusion.
Education of the Negro was essentially limited to industrial training.
Before the end of the Civil War, a total of about 40 blacks had graduated
from colleges and universities in the United States. All of these colleges
were in the northern states. With few exceptions these ...