Morrill Land-Grant Acts
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The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states, focusing on agricultural and mechanical studies.
Justin Smith Morrill
Kansas State University campus, 1878
Tuskegee Institute students at work on the school farm
A county extension agent and cotton farmer meet in Pulaski County, Arkansas
Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African A
Morrill Land-Grant Acts
…otherwise would not have had them. Among the seventy colleges and universities which eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today's historically Black colleges and universities. Though the 1890 Act granted cash instead of land, it granted colleges under that act the same legal standing as the 1862 Act colleges; hence the term…
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania was founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, making it the oldest HBCU in the nation.
President George H. W. Bush signs a new Executive Order on historically Black colleges and universities in the White House Rose Garden, April 1989.
North Carolina A&T State University is the nation's largest HBCU by enrollment.