In 2005, Towson University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore announced a joint Master of Business Administration program, despite the objections of nearby Morgan State University.

Morgan State, a historically Black college, argued that the program duplicated its own offering, and perpetuated a cycle of traditionally white institutions siphoning students away from historically Black ones — which, in turn, held up a history of segregation in education.

So, representatives from Morgan State, along with Maryland’s three other Historically Black Colleges and Universities, filed a lawsuit against the state.

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