The Chronic Underfunding of HBCUs

The HBCUs came first, starting with Cheney University in Pennsylvania in 1837. Then came The University of the District of Columbia in 1851, Lincoln University -Pennsylvania in 1854, Wilberforce University in 1856, Lemoyne-Owen in 1862, Virginia Union in 1864, Bowie State, Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University, or Shaw University in 1865 after the Civil War ended, and several Black colleges in 1866, including Fisk University, Lincoln University of Missouri, and Rust College. Most of them had different names, like The African Institute, Miner College, Fisk Free Colored School, The Ashmun Institute, and more, before becoming what they are today.

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