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...Nashville, Tenn., the desegregation effort took a reverse twist. Three children of white professors at Fisk University were refused admission to the Pearl elementary school (for Negroes). A Negro city councilman, Alexander Looby, promptly announced that he would file suit to compel the school board to admit them...
Since it was originated in 1902, the Rhodes Scholarship Trust has selected only one U.S. Negro as a Rhodes scholar* and has never granted a scholarship to a student in a Negro college. Last week came word of a change in policy. Beginning next term, Tennessee's Fisk University will become the first U.S. Negro college to take part in the Rhodes scholarships...
There she decided to enroll for postgraduate study at one of three U.S. universities (Chicago, New York University, Fisk) that offer advanced courses in race relations. Fisk offered her a scholarship. With the approval of her parents, she moved into one of Fisk's dormitories, later shared an off-campus apartment with a Negro woman instructor...
Mary got a friendly reception on the campus, although she was always aware that, at Fisk, she was a member of the minority race. "Negroes," she found, "have prejudices like anyone else." Puzzled but seldom hostile, Nashville whites could not understand why Mary was at Fisk instead of a white college. Once police stopped her outside her apartment in the city's Negro section. "They thought I was drunk or lost," she says. "I finally convinced them that I knew what I was doing. They were a little amazed but left me alone." Last year Mary traveled...
...year experience at Fisk has given studious Mary Howard a sociologist's dispassionate outlook: "I was experiencing 'reverse integration,' how discrimination feels on the other side of the color line." Hoping for a job with an interracial welfare agency in the North or Midwest, she feels that, despite occasional difficulties, her education was a success: "If I had it to do over again, I would still choose Fisk...