Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETER ROBERT RENTSCHLER Hamilton, Ohio...
...first class at the University of Georgia last week, pretty Negro Coed Charlayne Hunter, 18, heard a psychology lecture on human behavior. The subject was timely, for that morning she and Hamilton Holmes, 19, breached a sorry human-behavior barrier: the 175-year-old tradition of segregation at the campus in Athens. They ignored slurs from some white students ("Make way for the nigger"), reveled in a countering welcome from others ("She has such poise"). But that night, even as Georgia was being toasted across the nation for a display of tolerance and maturity, Students Hunter and Holmes learned that...
...months, Hamilton Holmes, 19, and Charlayne Hunter, 18, had tried to get into the university. They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third. The university rejected them on a variety of pretexts, but was careful never to mention the color of their skins. Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse (Negro) College, where he is a B+ student and star halfback. Charlayne studied journalism at Detroit's Wayne State University. Last fall, after they took their hopes for entering Georgia to court, Judge Bootle ordered them...
Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all-and few had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes. The real reason for his rejection, they argued, is the fact that Georgia law automatically cuts off funds for any desegregated school...
...Crimson will play in Ithaca, N.Y. tonight at 3 p.m., and meet Colgate in Hamilton tomorrow...