In 1960, 65 percent of African American college students attended historically black colleges. By the 1970s, that number dropped to 34 percent. In 1996, just 20 percent of black students attended America's 103 historically black colleges. Though vital when they began in the mid-1800s, are these black colleges still necessary?
Cynthia L. Jackson is a faculty member at the Union Institute in Cincinnati, OH. She is the author of ABC-CLIO's African American Education. Eleanor F. Nunn is director of the Historically Minority Universities Biotechnology Center at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park, NC.
"That a group of schools exists under the official rubric 'historically black colleges and universities' (HBCU) is not well-known amongst the general public ... examines many aspects of these 103 higher education institutions, which enroll approximately 21 percent of all black college students ... This volume is recommended for all education and black studies collections." - American Reference Books Annual
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