At this point , yeah , continue with Mind of My Mind , Clay ' s Ark , Patternmaster . <| sep |> This is really bad in a really good way . <| sep |> Sure . HBCU were an oversight in the original LandGrant College Act . Many of the new colleges created under the act in the South , primarily weren ' t open to black Americans , which meant they were generally excluded from higher education , given the restrictions at previously existing institutions . Alcorn State in Mississippi was created as a blackspecific landgrant institution , but most HBCU landgrant schools arise after 1890 , when Sen . Morrill managed to fix his mistake with a second landgrant act . This required you to either open your landgrant school to blacks and whites , or create a second school specifically for blacks . This is when a lot of the HBCUs we know today were created . A few were created between the end of the Civil War and 1890 by state legislatures and private donations , but the end of Reconstruction in 1876 really hampered the creation of new ones , since racist Democrats took control of state legislatures across the South and clamped down on them .