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The Southern College and the Color Line

Item

Title
The Southern College and the Color Line
Issue Date
3 October 1950

Note: There is some confusion about dating here, as two issues carried a date of October 3. Our online repository numbering has followed the order of the bound volume, which has one of them marked and ordered as October 10. However, given the two editorials, the second representing itself as a followup to the other by name, the wrong issue seems to have been relabeled October 10. The first issue in sequence has the scores from the October 7 football game, further indicating it is the later of the two. The link below is to the proper content, displaying the incorrect date.
Issue
Vol. 55, No. 1
Issue Editor
Sam Harvey
Description
Written after and in response to the enrollment of a Black student to the University of Tennessee's Law School.

It argues that the University of Alabama will soon probably face something similar, adding, "And like it or not, we might as well get ready." It also indicates that while there may be initial backlash, the fact that white Southerners share spaces with Black Southerners on a regular basis indicates they will eventually accept this.
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Followup editorial
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