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/u/Red_Galiray writes about the #History of Historically Black Colleges & Universities in the US, and how they were able to be founded & thrive despite severe racism, Jim Crow, and more. #Skystorians #BlackHistory #ThrowbackThursday

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Despite the severe racism of the Jim Crow American South, how were HBCU's (Historically Black Colleges and universities) able to be founded and expanded? Were they not seen as a threat to the White authority across the region? Many of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the South were actually founded during the Reconstruction period in the aftermath of the American Civil War, as part of an effort by the victorious Union, Northern missionaries and activists, the Black community, and Southern Republicans to bring education to the South as a requisite for the establishment of free labor and through that of social, economic and political progress. https://buff.ly/2mWeXE2