Historically Black Colleges and Universities came out of the very interesting history of the US. Where black people were paying taxes to universities they were

Historically Black Colleges and Universities came out of the very interesting history of the US. Where black people were paying taxes to universities they were legally discriminated from attending. Rather than treating people of all races as equal those states created vocational colleges (anything with Ag in the name was a vocation school) exclusively for black students. And even then they were given a pittance of funding compared to other public universities (referred to as PWIs, predominantly white institutions).