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founding of black colleges  

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  • The end of the Civil War forced the United States to grapple with integrating Black freedmen and freedwomen into the social order, and reformers turned to education as the primary mechanism through which that integration would occur. This entry describes the diverse values that shaped Black colleges founded in the decades following the Civil War. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; Black Colleges, Founding of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KKHF062S-0

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