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Minneapolis Spokesman
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
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Students at Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem, N.C., overwhelmingly voted against admitting Black students in a straw poll: 742 never, 322 soon, 282 immediately. The non-binding vote followed a Baptist leader's call for integration.
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Winston-Salem, N. C. (ANP)-
Wake Forest undergraduates voted Tuesday never to admit Negroes to the white Baptist-supported institution here.
The straw vote was conducted among students of the School of Business Administration and the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
On a three-choice ballot, 742 students voted never to integrate, 322 voted to integrate in the relatively near future and 282 voted to integrate immediately. The total vote, 1,346, represented all but about 400 of the students in the two schools.
The outcome means nothing, beyond, an expression of the student body opinion, officials said.
The vote was requested by the Student Legislature, just a week after the president of the North Carolina Baptist Convention, C. B. Deane, had asserted that Baptists "cannot wait longer on taking favorable action looking toward the admission of qualified Negro students into our institutions."
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Wake Forest undergraduates voted never to admit Negroes, with 742 against integration, 322 for near future, and 282 for immediate. The vote was among students of the School of Business Administration and School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, totaling 1,346 votes. Requested by Student Legislature after C. B. Deane urged admission of qualified Negro students.