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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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At its 54th annual meeting in New York, the Association of American Law Schools opts for persuasion over membership requirements to end racial discrimination at 16 Southern law schools. W. Page Keeton chairs the committee; Wesley A. Sturges becomes president.
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New York, N.Y., Jan. 3. Continued "persuasion" will be used in an effort to eliminate racial discrimination at sixteen Southern law schools. This method was decided on by the Association of American Law Schools at the session at the Biltmore Hotel yesterday that ended its fifty-fourth annual meeting.
While the 119-member group has
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an "objective of eliminating racial discrimination in member law schools," a special committee on the subject reported that at this time it would be unwise to require conformance as a condition of membership.
W. Page Keeton of the University of Texas, who was chairman of the committee, recommended instead that personal visits be made again to deans and faculties to convince them of the value of compliance that the forthcoming decisions of the Supreme Court on implementing its anti-bias ruling be studied for possible application to law schools and that, if needed an amendment to the association's rules be drafted to require an end to bias.
Prof. Wesley A. Sturges of Yale University Law School was installed as president of the association, and Prof. Maurice T. Van Hecke of the University of North Carolina was named president-elect.
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New York, N.Y., Biltmore Hotel
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Jan. 3
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The Association of American Law Schools, at its 54th annual meeting, decides to use continued persuasion, including personal visits to deans, to eliminate racial discrimination at 16 Southern law schools, rather than requiring it as a membership condition. Wesley A. Sturges is installed as president, and Maurice T. Van Hecke as president-elect.