The Tale of Two Morrill Acts: 1890 Historically Black Land-Grant Universities
Bea Wilsonhttps://www.ideation308.com/ ·
October 22, 2020
Justin Smith Morrill, a young senator from Vermont, had a vision for all Americans to have access to higher education — which, in the early 1800s, had been reserved for elite, wealthy white males. Morrill developed a proposal in 1857 to grant land to each state for the establishment of public universities. Morrill was determined […]