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The billions of dollars MacKenzie Scott has quickly given away as no-strings-attached donations includes a total of $560 million to 23 historically Black colleges and universities. Known as HBCUs, many of the schools getting these funds are calling them “historic.”
They aren’t just talking about the size of the gifts or how she’s become in most cases the universities’ biggest individual donor on record. She is departing completely from the approach of early white funders, whose giving often sought to limit Black achievement, explains Tyrone McKinley Freeman, a historian at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI.
“In my view, it will take decades of Scott-style giving for HBCUs to recover what has been lost in time, compound interest and impact over generations,” Freeman writes.
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Attorneys George E.C. Hayes, left, Thurgood Marshall, center, and James M. Nabrit, all HBCU grads, successfully sought to defeat school segregation in court.
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