PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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Question
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African American students in the North
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had less opportunity for education than those in the South.
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did not benefit from educational reforms.
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had opportunities to attend black colleges formed in the 1840s.
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usually attended the same schools as white students.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The First of Its Kind On February 25, 1837, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania became the nation’s first Historically Black College and University (HBCU).
Detailed explanation-2: -The first HBCUs were founded in Pennsylvania and Ohio before the American Civil War (1861–65) with the purpose of providing black youths-who were largely prevented, due to racial discrimination, from attending established colleges and universities-with a basic education and training to become teachers or tradesmen.
Detailed explanation-3: -First in Academia: Oberlin was the first college in America to adopt a policy to admit black students (1835) and the first to grant bachelor’s degrees to women (1841) in a coeducational program.
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