Nearly $57 Million in funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) are withheld, reports the APLU. In a 2013 survey of 1890 land-grant universities conducted by the APLU Office for Access and Success, 50 percent of institutions indicated that they did not receive one-to-one matching funds from their state.

Courtney at Black Enterprise explains:

[quote_box_center]Between 2010 and 2012, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Florida and Delaware reportedly did not allocate proper funds to some of the minority institutions within their state. [/quote_box_center]

A second Morrill Act, aimed at the former Confederate states, was passed in 1890 that required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color. Among the 70 colleges and universities which eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today’s historically black colleges and universities.

Though the 1890 Act granted cash instead of land, it granted colleges under that act the same legal standing as the 1862 Act colleges, hence why the term “land-grant college” properly applies to both groups. However, many did not receive land nor money.