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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, two African American women apply to the University of Tulsa for law school and a master's in education. The private Presbyterian institution's trustees will decide in February, with no constitutional bar to Negro admission. Students are mostly supportive per a poll.
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TULSA, Okla.-ANP The issue of whether Negroes should be admitted to institutions of higher learning for years reserved for whites only dropped up here recently when two women made application for entrance into the University of Tulsa. The two applicants are Mrs. Henry Mae Pete, secretary to Attorney Amos Hall who seeks admittance to the law school and Mrs. E. L. Haughton, business college teacher who wants to attend the downtown division of the university to pursue work on a master's degree in education.
However, university decision on the applications is being withheld pending a meeting of the trustees some time in Feb. 21, said President C. I. Pontius. The applications and transcripts of credit were sent to the faculty committee on admission and advanced standing and then on to the trustees and administration for further study.
The university is a privately endowed Presbyterian-related institution controlled by a self-perpetuating board of directors. It is a non-profit Oklahoma corporation.
In its constitution, there is nothing which relates to the admission of Negroes according to Dr. Pontius. The only reference to racial groups to be found is a paragraph in section three article four of the constitution, which states It is made an irrevocable provision of their articles of incorporation that in each month shall be admitted to all departments of the university.
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Meanwhile a split pill of student opinion is said to have developed the students are about equally divided on the question of admitting Negroes. Generally speaking, freshmen students are said to have fewer objections than advanced students.
Out of 50 students polled only two said they would quit if Negroes were allowed to enter. Two others didn't think they should be admitted as yet, while the remaining 46 were for their admission.
In connection with this opinion poll it was learned that petition supportive the admission of Negroes has been circulated by senior in the department of geology. The student is head lab or who had the petitions printed without support from any campus group.
He believes that the board of trustees should know if a majority of the students are willing for Negroes to be admitted.
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Tulsa, Okla., University Of Tulsa
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Recently, Feb. 21
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Two Negro women, Mrs. Henry Mae Pete and Mrs. E. L. Haughton, apply for admission to the University of Tulsa, a previously white-only institution. Decision withheld pending trustees' meeting. University constitution has no bar to Negro admission. Student opinion divided but mostly supportive, with a poll showing 46 out of 50 in favor. A geology senior circulated a petition supporting admission.