The author of this speech discusses racial dualism in higher education in the American South. The states of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana have all had suits brought against them for maintaining separate and unequal institutions for blacks and whites. In all three states, the vast proportion of funds allocated for higher education have been channelled into the white colleges and universities. Academic programs and facilities have been developed to a high level in these institutions at the expense of black colleges. The author reviews the history of separate higher education in the South, including the founding of land grant colleges, and describes the effects of the expansion of white institutions on black education in the three states mentioned. Recognizing the important role of black colleges and universities, the author, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, discusses judicial remedies to this unequal and discriminatory educational system. (GC)