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...Julius Rosenwald Fund...
Dean Cocking, a furriner born in Iowa, had been accused of proposing a graduate school where Negroes and whites might study together. He had also been messing around with a "subversive" organization -the Julius Rosenwald Fund (which has spent some $15,000,000 supporting education of Negroes and whites in the South...
Last week, in a packed hall in the Capitol, the Board of Regents held a hearing. The Governor, himself a regent, was there, munching his lunch and prompting his fellow board members. Regent James S. Peters waved a copy of Brown America, a book by the Rosenwald Fund's President Edwin Rogers Embree, charged it preached Negro-white equality. Cried he: "Negroes will ride in the same railroad cars, sit in the same schools, go to the same lavatories as white...
Regent Peters added that Dean Cocking had helped spend Rosenwald Funds in Georgia (the State University system got $325,000 of Rosenwald money in the last five years), therefore was guilty of disseminating Embree ideas...
...present plant, costing $2,200,000, was the gift of the Rockefeller General Education Board, Rosenwald Fund, George Eastman, Edward S. Harkness, citizens of Nashville, alumni and faculty...