"Negroes [eventually] should attend . . . our classes, participate in [our] functions, join the same clubs, be our roommates . . . and marry among us. . . . The most important work [lies] in educating ourselves away from the idea of white-supremacy nonsense."
This suggestion, in a Lincoln Day editorial in the undergraduate weekly Flat Hat of Virginia's old (1693) William and Mary College at Williamsburg, led swiftly last week to: 1) the firing of Flat Hat's Editor in Chief, 22-year-old Marilyn Kaemmerle of Jackson, Mich., who wrote the editorial; 2) an administration edict that the paper's remaining editors...
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