Box U.06

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Includes coverage of University of Delaware's admittance of its first and second Black students.

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Headline reads "Blind Teachers Gets M.S. After 20 Summers of Study"

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Includes coverage of integration at the University of Georgia including the admittance of 18 year old Charlayne Hunter and 19 year old Hamilton Holmes. They would become the first Black students to attend UGA.

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Includes photographs of 1961 riot at University of Georgia by white students against integration of the school following the admittance of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes.

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Includes 1946 coverage of student senate voting to ban discrimination at University of Illinois. Also includes 1944 photograph of Claude "Buddy" Young and Coach Leo Johnson.

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State officials call for the closing of the University of Islam stating that the school is being operated by several unqualified teachers and staff members.

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Includes 1935 clipping with headline that reads, "Kansas House Demands Univ. Enforce Law; Attorney-General Asked to See that Jim Crow Ends at Once; State Med. School must be Opened; Exclusion of Nurses, Athletes Must End"

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Includes a copy of the declaratory judgement of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (Lexington-No.625); Lyman T. Johnson (Plaintiff) vs. Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky, et al (Defendants), Filed and entered April 27, 1949.

Scope and Contents Includes 1935 correspondence regarding University of Maryland refusing admission to negro applicants. Includes a transcript of a 1954 conversation between Carl Murphy and Judge William Cole. Includes a copy of the complete Maryland Court of Appeals which orders the University of Maryland to admit Donald Gaines Murray, a Negro student, to the law school of the University. Includes clipping with headline that reads "Maryland U, First to Drop Race Bar, Enrolls 20 Negroes." Includes photographs...