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SAMUEL M. NABRIT, president, Texas Southern University Sc.D...
...Bobby Kennedy last week reminded the world that the U.S. has an Irish Catholic for President, and added: "There is no question about it. In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has." And at Columbia, S.C., Howard University President James Madison Nabrit Jr. told the graduating class of Negro Benedict College: "Swifter than you can imagine, you will have all the rights and privileges of every other citizen in the U.S." That time cannot come too swiftly for young Negroes of 1961-and the John Pattersons of the South can do little...
...Nabrit has only himself to credit. One of seven children of an Atlanta preacher, he earned his law degree at Northwestern, then joined the Howard law faculty as a fledgling constitutional lawyer in 1936 and jumped into the battle for civil rights. Between teaching and setting up the first formal civil rights course in any U.S. law school, Nabrit argued discrimination cases in eleven states and the District of Columbia. He won major victories in getting the universities of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas to admit Negro students, did much to abolish white primary elections in Texas. In 1954, joining Howard...
Though Howard may suffer temporarily (but not too severely: 75 major corporations recruited Howard seniors this year, and all 66 engineering graduates were snapped up), President-elect Nabrit thinks he knows how to get the scholarship level up where he wants it. He is determined to press for a better academic break for Southern Negro high school students. But his main goal is a kind of reverse integration for Howard itself. Instead of holding the line to accommodate Negroes, he intends to hike standards to the point where Howard will attract top scholars of all races-be they white, yellow...
...idea of a great, multiracial university with roots around the world is an exciting one for both Howard and the U.S. Like Nabrit himself, who returned last week as a delegate to the International Labor Conference in Geneva for the second year in a row. Howard faculty members frequently carry out foreign technical missions, particularly in Asia and Africa. Wherever they go, from starting a new medical school in Saigon to establishing a home economics department at the University of Baroda. India, they meet Howard alumni, who know the U.S. and understand what it is trying to accomplish. The horizons...