Historically Black Colleges and Universities.ppt

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Rosalind Fuse-Hall Executive Assistant to the Chancellor North Carolina Central University September 19, 2005 Definition of an HBCU Historically Black Colleges and Universities are defined as those that were created before 1964 with the principal mission of educating black Americans and is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association. U.S. Department of Education Before Reconstruction Under the law of 1762 it was compulsory, moreover, for every master to teach or cause his ward to be taught to read or write. Apprenticeship system in North Carolina and responsible for a large literate free Negroes documented in 1850 NC census. 1831 laws were passed against the teaching of slaves. Adverse impact on generations of free Negroes John Chavis, Negro intellectual, attended Princeton University and Washington Lee University in Roanoke, VA After the Civil War Creation of normal schools Freedmen’s Bureau Oliver Otis Howard Article IX, Section 2: NC Constitution of 1875 provided for the separate education for the Negro and white children of the state 1890 Morrill Act North Carolina Schools 1866 Shaw University 1867 St. Augustine’s 1868 Biddle University 1870 Scotia Seminary 1873 Bennett Seminary 1879 Zion Wesley Institute 1887 Kittrell Industrial Sch. 1867 Howard School 1890 Agricultural Mechanical College for the Colored Race 1891 State Colored Normal School 1892 Slater Industrial Academy 1910 National Religious Training School Chautauqua Turn of the Century Debate between the need for industrial training schools versus the need for classical training to produce critical thinkers Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois Turn of the Century History of Religious Training School and Chautauqua (NC College for Coloreds, NC College at Durham, NC Central University) Purpose of higher education Teaching Research Service After the WWII Military hailed as the first success of integration. A