As W. E. B. Du Bois noted, the black colleges were not perfect, but "in a single generation they put thirty thousand black teachers in the South" and "wiped out the illiteracy of the majority of black people in the land".
正如W·E·B·杜波依斯写道，黑人大学并不完美，但是“在一个世代里他们将3000名黑人教师送入南方，”并“铲除了当地大多数黑人的文盲率。