In Case You Were Wondering…
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US flags are being flown at half staff today to honor the funeral of Dorothy Height, a leader in civil rights and president of the National Council of Negro Women. Height was admitted to Barnard in 1929, but was turned away upon arrival because the school would only admit two black students per year, so she went to NYU instead. In 2004, Barnard finally realized the folly of its ways and “recognized her achievements as an honorary alumna.”
According to Public Safety, there are info cards at the bottom of each flag pole for your reading pleasure.
Tags: civil rights, historical figures
29 April 2010 @ 12:46 PM · 12 comments
i actually was wondering that just now.
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the school could *only* accept two black students per year– there was a particular quota of black students schools could take as set out by the state of new york.
where’d you find this outV
http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/dorothy-height-overcomes-barnard-admissions-racism
Why are those cards set at the bottom of the flagpoles? Why not somewhere more… prominent?
Way to fail Barnard
If the above poster is correct, then Barnard was following the law (a law which happened to be unjust).
according to the BSO’s website, Columbia had the same policy until the 1960s…not just a Barnard fail.
If you read the wikipedia article (not that wikipedia is the most accurate source, but i’d trust it over anonymous commenter) it says that barnard’s two black student policy was as “unsaid rule.”
captcha: essentially capsize. yeah…essentially.
http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/newnews/news042010.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/20/us/AP-US-Obit-Height.html?_r=1
my mistake… the racial quotas were most likely (although not stated in the nyt article or spar’s press release) set by the school, not the state.
This is so embarrassing! NYU?!
is fantastic