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There are 106 historically black colleges in the United States currently. The first black college was Shaw University and was established in 1865. Another institution was the Institute for Colored youth that started in the early 1930s.

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The first college for black women in the United States was Spelman College. The school was founded by Harriet E. Giles and Sophia Packard in 1881.

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