ABSTRACT
American black education, including higher education, may be considered to have passed through four distinct stages in terms of public policy. These stages are prohibition, development, segregation, and desegregation or integration. The development of black higher education within the United States has been markedly different from that of Native Americans. There are at least five very striking differences of experience between black and Native American higher education, any one of which could have created profoundly different outcomes. First, is the simple matter of who was administering the education of the two groups. Second, there is the matter of financial support, public and private. Third, the development of black higher education occurred in a much more concise manner. Fourth, difference was reflected in the disruptions on black college campuses of the 1920s. Fifth, is the level of attraction or resistance to education found within the target community.
