North Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown is filing a bill she says will fix funding disparities between historically black colleges and other state schools.
The Morrill Act of 1862 granted states federal land for at least one institution of higher learning. But African-Americans were banned from attending those schools.
So a second Morrill Act was passed in 1890, and Southern states created all-black institutions.
In recent years, Brown asserts, funding for HBCUs has shrunk while money for predominantly white schools not. Brown’s proposed Land Grant Opportunity Act would mandate all land-grant schools get funded the same way.
