Word: wilbraham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert J. Fahey of 3 Essex Rd., Belmont; Belmont High. Chester V. Ford, Jr., of 23 Aberdeen St., Boston; Boston Public Latin. James H. Freeman of Willbraham Academy, Wilbraham; Wilbraham Academy. Paul Fruit of 28 Ransom Rd., Brighton; Boston Public Latin. Sumner J. P. Germain of 48 Sewall St., Lynn; English High, Lynn. Thomas J. Gill of 159 Chestnut Ave., Boston; Boston Public Latin...
...outburst was occasioned by the refusal of Wilbraham Academy, oldest Methodist school in America, to admit the fully qualified son of one of its own Negro alumni.* The alumnus is Robert Shaw Wilkinson Jr., a Manhattan surgeon. He and his brother both graduated from Wilbraham with highest honors-the first pair of brothers to achieve this distinction in the history of the school...
Said Dr. Wilkinson: "If you could have seen the tragic expression which came over the face of my splendid young son last evening when he was apprised of Wilbraham's decision, you would fully realize the serious implications and results of the pseudodemocracy existing in America today...