ations, including in the realm of education. This meant that blacks were not admitted to institutions of higher education in most of these states, since there were no publicly funded colleges for blacks in these states, aside from Mississippi, Virginia, and South Carolina.
This problem was addressed by the Second Morrill Act, enacted in 1890. This legislation contained some provisions requiring states to either admit blacks to existing land grant colleges or provide separate educational facilities for them. The segregationist states subsequently established separate schools for black students, either building new institutions, designating existing ones as black colleges, or allocating some land grant funds to private black colleges.
Note that this was in the era of "separate but equal." The Supreme Court had ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that states could segregate public facilities on the basis of race so long as the two sets of facilities were "equal." Thus, all of the southern states, and some of the northern states, established sep
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