Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "Hidden History of Student Debt" video.

  1. The fact that racism is one of the biggest hurdles is shown by when the Republican party was for suffrage of Black Americans, they passed "free college" [and, as today, the white opposition fought it fiercely]. The first Senate bill to fund free public colleges and universities in every state was by Republican Senator Justin S. Morrill of Vermont. "...one of the most significant pieces of wartime legislation. First proposed when Morrill was serving in the House of Representatives, the Morrill Land Grant College Act of 1862 set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.” The president signed the bill into law on July 2, 1862."
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