After graduating from a St. Louis, Mo., high school where she was one of very few blacks, Elizabeth Johnson wanted to "try something different." She enrolled at Lincoln University, a historically black college founded by African-American Civil War veterans in Jefferson City, Mo. But Johnson was in for a shock when she arrived at her first class. "I was the only black face in the room," recalls the 19-year-old sophomore.
Johnson didn't realize that Lincoln is one of four historically black colleges and universities, out of 106, where white students are in the majority. Once revered as the black Harvard of...
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