By: Nathaniel Brown MD

Nathaniel Brown MD — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:40:33 +0000

�ֲ��ý Economics professor John Murray Carroll, my grandfather, mentioned once in this history of college debate teams’ struggle to get outstanding African American college debaters into Delta Sigma Rho, actually had a large role in this 15-yr struggle (after Mayes’ graduation), as detailed over several pages in the middle of Mayes’ cited biography Walking Integrity.

By: rkean

rkean — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 15:11:00 +0000

The virulent, unyielding racism in the debate society was in step with the lynchings going on throughout the South (and I think there was one in Pennsylvania as well). One wonders what daily life must have been like for the token Black people admitted to elite schools then. Clearly they were outstanding and multi-talented students. As noted in the article John Preston Davis worked on making the New Deal applicable to people of color but, for the most part it wasn’t, as racist policies prevented access at one or more points in the qualifying process.

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By: Nathaniel Brown MD

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