Acclaim, fundraising spread unevenly among Black colleges
Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Jeff Amy and Larry Fenn
Associated Press
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Atlanta Two recent high-profile faculty appointments could be a fundraising and enrollment bonanza for Howard University, one of the nation’s most prestigious Black colleges. Many other Black schools are not so fortunate; in fact, many are struggling.
Some, especially smaller private colleges, have been fighting for their survival for years, with weak endowments, aging buildings and steady enrollment declines, all made worse by the coronavirus pandemic.
“While larger HBCUs often have the funding resources necessary to attract accomplished talent like Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates, many smaller institutions need donors to step forward, contributing much-needed financial resources for us to compete,” said Paulette Dillard, president of Shaw University, a private Black university in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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When Thurgood Marshall was strategizing his legal attack on segregation in the public school system of Topeka, Kansas, he asked psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark to repeat an experiment they had first conducted 20 years earlier in the 1930s.
In what has come to be known as the âDoll Test,â the Clarks handed African-American children two sets of dolls, one white and one Black. They then asked the children a number of questions, including âwhich doll looks the most like youâ and âwhich doll is nice, which is bad?â
The overwhelming majority picked the white dolls as being both ânice,â and looking the most like them. From this, the Clarks deduced that the forced segregation of Jim Crow taught Black children to feel inferior. Marshall used this information in his powerful arguments to the Warren Court, and convinced the justices to overturn the principle of âseparate but equal.â
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