Foundation Funds in Aid of Blacks: For a More Thoughtful Distribution.
Historically, the black institution of higher learning has been forced to limp along on a pitifully meager budget. Some of the black schools were founded and supported by churches and missionaries trying to wipe out generations of illiteracy with limited funds. Others, established under the southern policy of "separate, but for God's sake, not equal," received the leavings of state funds, after their prestigious white counterparts-the pride of their states-had been allotted almost unlimited money for their development and for the nurturing of "southern gentlemen." Money is a fundamental ingredient in the educational structure of any college or university. It is most critically important for the black college, which in the past, by deliberate social design, had been forced into an inferior position. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), after intensive study of black institutions of higher education, in i967 cited dire financial deprivation as the most critical problem faced by the traditionally black college: