Why are majority of HBCUs discovered/founded by whites?

[Manny2828]

So my cousin is going to a Xavier University( an HBCU in Cincinnati) next week and I kinda went down a wormhole looking at various HBCUs and their history and come to find out majority of HBCU were started by cacs I’m not sure if it’s just me but I’m stunned by this. I thought all HBCUs were made by black people. Is this common knowledge to y’all?

 

[OfTheCross]

So my cousin is going to a Xavier University( an HBCU in Cincinnati) next week and I kinda went down a wormhole looking at various HBCUs and their history and come to find out majority of HBCU were started by cacs I’m not sure if it’s just me but I’m stunned by this. I thought all HBCUs were made by black people. Is this common knowledge to y’all?

This is news to me.

 

[Paradoxx]

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t it for their biracial children?

 

[Darth Nubian]

How else had the capital necessary to educate recently freed slaves?

 

[Secure Da Bag]

So my cousin is going to a Xavier University( an HBCU in Cincinnati) next week and I kinda went down a wormhole looking at various HBCUs and their history and come to find out majority of HBCU were started by cacs I’m not sure if it’s just me but I’m stunned by this. I thought all HBCUs were made by black people. Is this common knowledge to y’all?

Yeah. You'll find that a lot of them believed that Blacks should go to college. Just not with whites.

 

[Samori Toure]

The majority of HBCUs were not founded by White people. They were founded by Black Churches.

 

[YaThreadFloppedB!]

For how short it was; Reconstruction is one of the most interesting periods in American history.

How else had the capital necessary to educate recently freed slaves?

this^

 

[North of Death]

The majority of HBCUs were not founded by White people. They were founded by Black Churches.

Which were funded by white denominations

 

[#1 pick]

Colleges are extremely expensive and Black people don't have but like 1% of this nation's wealth

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Black folk simply didn't have the resources or the pull at the time to found them.

 

[Jatigi]

Xavier in New Orleans, Louisiana is the HBCU. Xavier in Cincinnati is different. I think they have the same name because they are both Jesuit institutions.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

For how short it was; Reconstruction is one of the most interesting periods in American history.

I didn't learn about it until university, I'd be willing to say it was a life-changing experience for me. Flipped my perspective on a ton of shyt.

 

[#1 pick]

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t it for their biracial children?

The elite ones like Spelman, Morehouse, some of the ones in Ohio, etc. I think Howard was created by federal gornverment but I could be wrong

 

[Doobie Doo]

NCCU was founded by a black man

 

[Real]

Cuz education is another for of white supremacy my brotha