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Episodes tagged "integration/segregation": 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. One Jew’s Rebuttal to the Civil Rights Movement
    date 1957 to 1960map Leflore, Mississippitags integration/segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Jewish

    In 1957, an anonymous Jewish citizen in Greenwood, MS created a pamphlet called “A Jewish View on Segregation”. In his pamphlet, he gives an account of why the Jewish population should prefer segregation. His premise is the same as White Southerners “that the innate inferiority of African Americans would leave them incapable of competing on equal terms in an integrated society”. He claims that...

  2. The Self-Integration Of Pembroke State College
    date July 3, 1956map Robeson, North Carolinatags Education, Race-Relations, integration/segregation, lumbee indians, Pembroke State College

    In the summer of 1956, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) had “a record enrollment of 124 in its summer session,” wrote a journalist for The Robesonian.  The reason for this record breaking enrollment was clear: more white students were taking advantage of the university’s summer sessions.  UNCP, then known as Pembroke State College (PSC), started admitting whites in 1953,...