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Benedict and Allen founded
1870
Columbia, South Carolina
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Two historically Black colleges opened within blocks of each other five years after emancipation, one on a former slave market site bought with a Rhode Island widow's gift. During Reconstruction South Carolina had a Black legislative majority. Both institutions outlasted its violent end in 1876.
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