Trends in the Control of Private Negro Colleges

Historically, the private college has been a potent factor in the development of American education. In fact, we are reminded by Grizzell that The era of state universities did not begin until after the Civil War,2 while the pioneering efforts of such private institutions as Harvard, founded in 1636, William and Mary in 1693, and Yale in 1701, and their contemporaries, had proved inestimable contributions to the cause of higher education in America. > In a large measure the growth and development of colleges for Negroes has experienced many comparable parallels although originating over two centuries later. Long before the state supported colleges for Negroes received their impetus from the second Morrill Act of 1890, the private col

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