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Subject: 1998-09-15 Proclamation on Black Colleges and Universities Week
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release September 15, 1998
NATIONAL HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES
AND UNIVERSITIES WEEK, 1998
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Education has always been at the heart of opportunity in America.
That has never been more true than today, when a revolution in
technology is fundamentally changing the way we live and work and learn.
In this new era of dynamic challenge and possibility, we recognize that
the best opportunities for personal and professional success will go to
those who are well educated. Our Nation's Historically Black Colleges
and Universities (HBCUs) play a vital role in helping to extend access
to a quality education.
Established before and just after the Civil War to educate free
black students, these institutions have been African Americans' primary
route -- and for many the only route -- to higher education. Struggling
to exist in a segregated society, striving to keep tuition affordable
despite limited financial resources, these schools nonetheless upheld
their mission of academic excellence and equal opportunity.
Phil Graham
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