IN our issue of Nov. 8, 1963, we ' ran a story about Miles College, a small Negro institution on the outskirts of Birmingham, Ala., so strapped that it had to stop watering its lawn for fear it would run up too big a water bill. Its buildings were inadequate and shabby, it lacked accreditation, and prejudice was blocking attempts at self-improvement. Miles, the only four-year college available to most of the 4,000 Negro students who graduate from Birmingham's high schools each year, was, to put it bluntly, in big trouble.
How has Miles fared since then?
While the impact of our major...
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