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During last week's commencement exercises at Fisk University in Nashville, slender Mary Greta Howard, 23, got her reward for two years' graduate study: a master's degree in race relations. Her academic record was topnotch, but she enjoyed an even rarer distinction. All but three of Fisk's 800 students are Negroes. Mary was the first white student to get a Fisk degree since the 1890s and one of relatively few whites who have earned a degree from a Negro college...
...Mary Howard decided to study at Fisk? Daughter of a U.S. Department of the Interior chemist, she was born in Washington, where she attended segregated elementary schools, later went to a nonsegregated high school in Albuquerque, studied psychology at Grinnell College in Iowa. The turning point of her college career: a one-term stay as an exchange student at Virginia's Negro Hampton Institute...
These seniors selected were the following: Robert G. Fisk, Dudley; Alfred M. Goodale, Leverett; John A. Griner III, Winthrop; John P. Hoag, Jr., Winthrop; and Francis T. Lombardi, Eliot...
...hunting license longer or beat the bushes harder than J. B. Matthews. After getting an A.B. degree from Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky., he was a Methodist lay missionary in Java, translated a hymnal into Malay, later studied at Union Theological Seminary, taught Oriental languages and current events at Fisk and Howard Universities for Negroes. He became a Socialist, and, unlike most U.S. Socialists, an active fellow traveler of the Communists, belonging to 28 Commie fronts. In 1934 he broke with the party. Subsequently he went to work as chief investigator for the Dies committee, a job he held until...
...River Styx and on the other side too." A Negro lawyer put it this way: "It's bad enough to be black without being Red too." The Negro is still deeply religious, although American churches have been slow in fighting discrimination before the altar. Says Marie Johnson, wife of Fisk University's President Charles Johnson: "I think we got the best out of Christianity, because we had to have it. No matter how we may scoff...