This list of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) includes institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the Black American community.
[1][2] Most HBCUs are located in the Southern United States, where state laws generally required educational segregation until the 1950s and 1960s.
Alabama has the highest number of HBCUs, followed by North Carolina, and then Georgia.
The list of closed colleges includes many that, because of state laws, were racially segregated.
In other words, those colleges are not just "historically" black, they were entirely black for as long as they existed.