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A brief history There are 105 historically black universities and colleges, and the majority were created in the United States after the Civil War. They were defined by the Higher Education Act of 1965 as any college or university established prior to 1964 whose main mission was (and is) to educate black Americans, and were accredited–or made strides toward being accredited–by nationally-recognized agencies. The history of these historical black colleges and universities offer stories of…