It wasn’t until nearly 40 years later, with the Morrill Act of 1890 (also known as the Second Morrill Act), that Congress recognized the need to provide publicly funded higher education to ...

The 1890 land-grant institutions are HBCUs that were established with federal land grants under the Second Morrill Act of 1890, which required states to establish those colleges and universities ...

Congress passed the second Morrill Act in 1890, which stipulated that no state could receive federal aid for any white agricultural or mechanical school unless the state also provided for a ...