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Negroes Study Quietly At Schools In 8 Dixie States
An Associated Press survey shows eight Southern states have admitted Negro students to graduate and undergraduate programs with no violence noted. Arkansas added a Negro to its law school in 1948 and others in Oklahoma Texas Virginia Kentucky North Carolina Tennessee and Louisiana followed quietly. By year mid the total range 500 to 1,000 in state colleges and similar in private institutions. Dormitories and cafeterias are largely segregated, with limited social mingling, while several campuses report Negro graduates and dual programs.
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Autherine Lucy
University of Alabama
Associated Press
Arkansas
University Law School
Dixie States
Oklahoma
Texas
Virginia
Kentucky
North
Carolina
Tennessee
Louisiana
Guy Johnson
University of North Carolina
Vately
North Carolina
University At
Fisk University
Nashville
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Fisk
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
Louisville
Heman Sweatt
Sweatt
Houston
University of Troas
U.S. Supreme Court