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This revolution did not make headlines because no students were occupying buildings, none were smoking the president's cigars, and because less than two per cent of the college was involved in the revolt, that two per cent included Wellesley's only black students...
...black students' disillusionment with Wellesley had been building up over a period of years. Most of them, coming from middle class neighborhoods and integrated schools, were well accustomed to life in a predominantly white institution. They anticipated no problems in making the adjustment to life at Wellesley. They were somewhat surprised, then, to find that the college's black freshmen were not roomed with white students because black students, the administration assumed, would be happier with girls from a "similar background...
...incidents that clearly set the black students apart. Nancy Gist '69 said she "didn't expect to be accepted with open arms," but continuous questions from white students who wanted to understand "the secret workings of a black chick's mind" gave her the impression that she was at Wellesley not so much to study as to be observed by "middle class deb-types who had never seen an intellectually equal black...
...result, the college's black students were not in a conciliatory mood when they confronted Wellesley's administration last spring. The confrontation arose over acceptances for the incoming freshman class that had just been sent out. Included among the 500 girls accepted were 19 blacks. But of the 19, only seven chose to come to Wellesley...
...black students at the college had little difficulty understanding why Wellesley might not appeal to blacks, but they were not willing to watch the black community on campus remain a small and isolated off-shoot of a major women's college...