While Student James Meredith hangs on at the University of Mississippi,* other Negroes are girding to breach all-white public campuses in Alabama and South Carolina, the only states that still have totally segregated public education. The top targets:
> University ofAlabama, now considering its third Negro applicant in five weeks. The only one publicly known is Vivian Malone, 20, of Mobile, daughter of a housemaid. Applicant Malone, presently a junior majoring in business education at all-Negro Alabama A. & M., will not have to go to court to establish the right of Negroes to enter the university. The school has been...
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