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Sweet Briar to admit first Negro student in September
Sweet Briar College will enroll its first Black student, Miss Marshalyn Yeargin of Greenville, S.C., in September to comply with the 1964 civil rights act after threats to federal funds. The founder’s will had a whites only clause, dating to 1899, upheld by court injunctions until May 28 vote to break it.
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