Life before medicine was probably honestly horrible, there was nothing to cure diseases, sickness and probably led to more deaths when people got sick because they had nothing to fight it off with, now that we have medicine we have been given chances to beat the sickness and to become healthier.
The first HBCUs were founded in Pennsylvania and Ohio before the American Civil War (1861–65) with the purpose of providing black youths—who were largely prevented, due to racial discrimination, from attending established colleges and universities—with a basic education and training to become teachers or tradesmen