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WCUNC accepts two Negro girls
Date:
circa 1956
Author:
unknown
Biographical/Historical abstract:
Additional contributor:
Description:
This uncredited newspaper article reports that two black students had been admitted for the fall semester at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC). Bettye Ann David Tillman and Elizabeth Jo Ann Smart were the first two black students admitted to the college, in response to a ruling in Federal Middle District Court.
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Format of original:
Newspaper Clippings
Collection:
University Archives Subject Files
Repository:
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Item#:
1.58.377
Rights:
No source reference, but it does seem to be a UP wire service article. It is responsibility of the user to follow the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). Materials are not to be reproduced in published works without written consent, and any use should credit Civil Rights Greensboro and the appropriate repository.
