Word: gantt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Carolina's state-run Clemson College, which rejected Harvey Gantt, 19, a Charleston mechanic's son who made the National Honor Society in high school, went on to Iowa State as an architectural engineering student. Gantt's request for admission to Clemson is before Federal Judge Cecil C. Wyche, 77, a fair-minded South Carolinian who is expected to rule in Gantt's favor if Clemson fails to disprove discrimination...
Memories of Mississippi. Odds are that at least one of the Negro applicants, probably Gantt, will make it in time for spring semester in February. Is the prospect peace-or another Ole Miss mess? Last week Alabama's Governor-elect George C. Wallace rattled his battle plans in a speech before the Mississippi state legislature. "All that I am advocating is that these forces of evil bridle themselves in their lustful desires to destroy the South," he said. Like Mississippi's Ross Barnett ("your gallant Governor"), Alabama's Wallace hopes to foil desegregation by making himself "chief...
...M.I.T. and Purdue, is all for taking desegregation "in our stride." Already well in stride is Clemson's President Robert C. Edwards, a former textile manufacturer, who is foresightedly preparing his 4,250 students so well that some of them even paid a sympathetic visit to Negro Applicant Gantt in court...