Historically, segregation did not simply manifest into physical separation; the psychological effects of race “separation “  rolled into the 2000’s after the raging influence of Jim Crow laws. While legal segregation ended in the mid-20th century, its structural legacy remains evident in educational disparities. HBCUs have faced chronic underfunding relative to predominantly white institutions often referred to as PWIs, a pattern often called resource hoarding. This unequal distribution has impaired archival development, preservation initiatives, and broader institutional documentation. As a result, the histories of HBCUs have frequently been omitted from public narratives and academic recognition. PVAMU’s experience illustrates this phenomenon. Founded in 1876, it remains one of the oldest public HBCUs in the United States. Yet its history is frequently omitted from state and national narratives. Public resources have favored PWIs, and initiatives to preserve PVAMU’s archival materials have historically lacked sustained support. These disparities reveal a broader pattern of institutional neglect that reflects the long-term consequences of racialized funding structures.Efforts to counteract this erasure have emerged through public history initiatives. Public history offers a corrective to this erasure. By prioritizing access, engagement, and collective memory, public history can function as a form of institutional and racial repair. At PVAMU, projects such as the Digital PV Panther Projectrepresent early steps toward this goal. Through digitization, oral history collection, and student-led archival work, such initiatives challenge the historical marginalization of HBCUs.