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Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.