Copy of the Tennessee State Board of Education's five-year gradual desegregation plan for public higher education institutions submitted as a defense of a suit against Memphis State University. The gradual desegregation plan outlines that qualified Black students can enroll at higher education institutes with graduate programs for graduate work beginning in the 1955-1956 academic year, and that white students also would be admitted for graduate work at the only public higher education institution in the state for Black students: Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University. Black undergraduate students with senior class standing could transfer to a formerly segregated institution for the 1956-1957 academic year. Black students could transfer for their junior year beginning in fall 1957 and sophomore year in fall 1958. Finally, the plan outlined that new freshmen could begin enrolling in the 1959-1960 academic year.
title:
Resolution of the State Board of Education
creator:
Tennessee. State Board of Education
subject:
Tennessee Technological University
subject:
Universities and colleges--Administration
subject:
Segregation
subject:
Segregation in higher education
subject:
African American college students
subject:
Discrimination in higher education
subject:
Tennessee. State Board of Education
description:
Copy of the Tennessee State Board of Education's five-year gradual desegregation plan for public higher education institutions submitted as a defense of a suit against Memphis State University. The gradual desegregation plan outlines that qualified Black students can enroll at higher education institutes with graduate programs for graduate work beginning in the 1955-1956 academic year, and that white students also would be admitted for graduate work at the only public higher education institution in the state for Black students: Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University. Black undergraduate students with senior class standing could transfer to a formerly segregated institution for the 1956-1957 academic year. Black students could transfer for their junior year beginning in fall 1957 and sophomore year in fall 1958. Finally, the plan outlined that new freshmen could begin enrolling in the 1959-1960 academic year.
date:
1955
type:
Text
format:
pdf
identifier:
RG9_20210630_001
publisher:
Tennessee Technological University. Archives and Special Collections
source:
Records of the President
language:
eng
temporal:
1950s
spatial:
Tennessee
rights:
In Copyright
rights Holder:
Tennessee State Board of Education
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