The Path to Founding an HBCU

Historically Black

Oct 31, 201600:14:21Society & Culture

Born into slavery, William Hooper Councill founded one of the nation's first HBCUs, Alabama A&M University. Negotiating the racial politics of Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow was dangerous work. Councill was a pe...

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