HBCUs: Then and now
HBCUs: Then and now
HBCUs continue to live up to the words of Frederick Douglass: “Education…means emancipation.”
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Transcript
BARACK OBAMA: You know, we meet here today as graduating classes have met for generations. But it's worth reflecting on why it happened, why so many people went to such trouble to found all our historically Black colleges and universities.
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The founders of these institutions knew, of course, that inequality would persist long into the future. They were not naive. But they also recognize the larger truth, a distinctly American truth. They recognize that the right education might allow those barriers to be overcome.
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Credits
Images:
National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Barack Obama Presidential Library/National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)/Getty Images: Claflin University, Jackson State University, North Carolina Central University; Getty Images: Icon Sportswire, Jason Kempin, NurPhoto, Paras Griffin, Rob Carr, Stephen Dunn, The Washington Post, Don Emmert/AFP; Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: Farm Security Administration—Office of War Information, DuBois albums of photographs of African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900; Farm Security Administration—Office of War Information/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: Gordon Parks, John Collier, Jr.; Yoichi Okamoto/Lyndon B. Johnson Library Photo
Video:
Courtesy of Human Jukebox Media, Southern University and A&M College; MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; William J. Clinton Library/National Archives, Washington, D.C.; The Biden White House; The Obama White House
Production:
Emily Goldstein, editor; Meg Matthias, producer
[MUSIC PLAYING]
The founders of these institutions knew, of course, that inequality would persist long into the future. They were not naive. But they also recognize the larger truth, a distinctly American truth. They recognize that the right education might allow those barriers to be overcome.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Credits
Images:
National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Barack Obama Presidential Library/National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)/Getty Images: Claflin University, Jackson State University, North Carolina Central University; Getty Images: Icon Sportswire, Jason Kempin, NurPhoto, Paras Griffin, Rob Carr, Stephen Dunn, The Washington Post, Don Emmert/AFP; Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: Farm Security Administration—Office of War Information, DuBois albums of photographs of African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900; Farm Security Administration—Office of War Information/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: Gordon Parks, John Collier, Jr.; Yoichi Okamoto/Lyndon B. Johnson Library Photo
Video:
Courtesy of Human Jukebox Media, Southern University and A&M College; MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; William J. Clinton Library/National Archives, Washington, D.C.; The Biden White House; The Obama White House
Production:
Emily Goldstein, editor; Meg Matthias, producer