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Box U.06

 Container

Contains 72 Results:

University of Minnesota (Folder 2), 1931-1938, 1942-1947, 1955

 File — Box: U.06
Scope and Contents

Includes clippings with headlines that read "Students Protest Jim Crow at U. of Minn.," and "Minnesota U. Head Blasts Color Bar"

Dates: 1931-1938; 1942-1947; 1955

University of Mississippi, 1957, 1962-1964

 File — Box: U.06
Scope and Contents

Includes clippings with headlines that read "Mississippi Savages Shock U.S., AFRO Reporter Tells Horror," "Murder in Mississippi," and "Fact Sheet on University of Mississippi Desegregation." Includes coverage of James Meredith's admission to University of Mississippi, the first Black student at the University.

Dates: 1957; 1962-1964

University of Missouri, 1941-1942, 1948

 File — Box: U.06
Scope and Contents

Includes coverage of the NAACP's court action against University of Missouri to admit Lloyd L. Gaines, 24 year old St. Louis youth to the university's school of law.

Dates: 1941-1942; 1948

University of Missouri Law School, 1936, 1939

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes photograph of anti-segregation picketing at the University of Missouri's law school

Dates: 1936; 1939

University of Nebraska, 1947

 File — Box: U.06
Scope and Contents

Includes clipping with headline that reads "Nebraska Wants Out of Big 6...Students Condemn Discrimination Rule."

Dates: 1947

University of Nevada, 1946

 File — Box: U.06
Scope and Contents

Includes coverage of Marion Motley, University of Nevada's halfback.

Dates: 1946

University of North Carolina, 1930-1933, 1945-1947, 1950-1951

 File — Box: U.06
Scope and Contents

Includes 1933 coverage of the legal fight to secure the entrance of Black students to the law school of the University of North Carolina.

Dates: 1930-1933; 1945-1947; 1950-1951

University of North Carolina Law School, 1950

 File — Box: U.06
Scope and Contents

NAACP sponsors lawsuit of four black students seeking admission to the University of North Carolina's Law School

Dates: 1950

University of Oklahoma, 1946-1948

 File — Box: U.06
Scope and Contents

Includes 1940 correspondence from Thurgood Marshall to Carl Murphy pertaining to the Alston et al V. School Board of Norfolk. Also includes 1948 correspondence from Thurgood Marshall pertaining to the Oklahoma University case. Includes clipping with headline that reads "Negro Wins Oklahoma U. Court Case...State Ordered to Amend Segregation Laws; Action Promised."

Dates: 1946-1948