Authors

William F. Tate IV, Louisiana State University
Keena N. Arbuthnot, Louisiana State University

A Comparative Financial Analysis of Louisiana's Land-Grant Universities: The Morrill Acts and Brown Revisited

Abstract

Despite a federal legislative mandate on states to support land-grant HBCUs in a fair and equitable fashion, the funding disparities [between land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and non-HBCU land-grant universities] accrued for decades and ostensibly for more than a century. Our purpose in this review is to explain the history, nature, and scope of this funding disparity. We are particularly interested in how Brown v. Board of Education (Brown I and Brown II) and related litigation and desegregation policy shaped this history. To narrow the scope of the review, we localize the problem to Louisiana. A state perspective is important as higher education desegregation plans and political decisions related to university funding appropriations are state specific.

This abstract has been taken from the authors' introduction.

Repository Citation

William F. Tate IV and Keena N. Arbuthnot, A Comparative Financial Analysis of Louisiana's Land-Grant Universities: The Morrill Acts and Brown Revisited, 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1061 (2025), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol66/iss4/7