Marion Hood was rejected for admission to Emory University only because he was “a member of the Negro race.”
Issue #267 American History February 28, 2023
Today is the last day of Black History Month, which started as “Negro History Week” in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson who believed that Negroes needed to learn about their own history and tell their own …
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