While the proportion of students from lower socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds enrolled in higher education continues to increase, rates of upward SES mobility among people from the
lower end of the socioeconomic distribution remain extremely low and socioeconomic inequality
in the United States continues to rise. The current manuscript examines...
During the 1870s and 1880s, state governments in the former slaveholding South established eleven public institutions for black higher learning. Given the volatile, impoverished, often repressive climate of the region, how did black political and educational leaders mobilize to expand state support for black higher education? Furthermore, how did they...