The pre-Civil War HBCU’s were all in Northern states and were funded primarily through private philanthropy. At the end of the Civil War, institutions to educate young people of color began to ...

Our leaders understood the need to educate our people and worked with religious leaders, donors, humanitarians, the Freedmen’s Bureau (after the Civil War) and the government to establish HBCUs.

The use of blood transfusions and how the procedure might save the lives of soldiers continued to be debated among physicians in the post-Civil War period, particularly during the First and Second ...

Today, let’s learn about the true architects of public education, which was established during the post-Civil War Reconstruction ... the founding of historically Black colleges and universities ...