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The second Morrill act
- The Second Morrill Act (1890) sought to extend access to higher education by providing additional endowments for all land-grants, but prohibiting distribution of money to states that made distinctions of race in admissions.
- However, states that provided a separate land-grant institution for blacks were eligible to receive the funds.
- The institutions that, as a result of this act, were founded or designated the land-grant for blacks in each of the then-segregated Southern states came to be known as “the 1890 land grants.” The 29 Native American tribal colleges are sometimes called the “1994 land-grants.