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- Title
Engineering Segregation: The University of Maryland in the Twilight of Jim Crow.
- Authors
Slaton, Amy E.
- Abstract
The article discusses resistance to racial segregation at the University of Maryland (UMD) in College Park, Maryland in the 1940s and 1950s. The UMD President at the time was Harry Clifton "Curly" Byrd. UMD accepted its first black undergraduate in 1951. The author examines the modernization of UMD academic programs after World War II. The author talks about the history of UMD's Eastern Shore Campus, which was all black. The increase of black engineers in the 1950s is addressed. The article also discusses black graduate student Donald Gaines Murray and UMD's refusal to accept him as a student.
- Subjects
COLLEGE Park (Md.); MARYLAND; UNITED States; SEGREGATION in higher education; BLACK college students; BYRD, Harry Clifton, 1889-1970; UNIVERSITY of Maryland Eastern Shore; UNIVERSITY of Maryland at College Park
- Publication
OAH Magazine of History, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 3, p15
- ISSN
0882-228X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/maghis/24.3.15