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In her 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 forces of reason seemed to be winning handily at first. Federal Judge William A. Bootle found the two young Atlantans qualified for the university, ordered them admitted immediately. As Charlayne arrived from Detroit's Wayne State University and Holmes from Atlanta's Morehouse College, Georgia's...
Holmes found quarters off campus, and Charlayne moved into a suite in Central Myers Hall. Attending class next day, Sophomores Holmes and Hunter got a friendly welcome from every teacher, were convoyed by solicitous students and officials. Every time Charlayne heard an insult, she found a white girl beside her...
Mrs. Daisy N. Newman, Head Resident of Holmes Hall, yesterday emphatically denied rumors that she will leave if the girls of Holmes vote for Sunday afternoon parietal hours.
Judge Bootle's decision: "The two plaintiffs are qualified for admission to said university and would already have been admitted had it not been for their race and color." The state will appeal-but few think it will actually try to close the university. "Surprised and pleased," Students Holmes...