MEMORANDUM
To: President Gray
From: W. D. Carmichael, Jr.
Subject: A Review of the Development of Graduate and Professional
Education for Negroes.
#
In 1938 the Supreme Court of the United States stated that: "The
State must provide (legal education) for (petitioner) in conformity with the
equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and provide it as soon
as it does for applicants of any other group. "
In Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337, 351 (1938)
speaking through Chief Justice Hughes, the Supreme Court declared that ....
"petitioner's right was a personal one. It was as an individual that he was
entitled to the equal protection of the laws, and the state was bound to furnish
him, within its own borders facilities for legal education substantially equal
to those the state there afforded for persons of the white race, whether or not
other Negroes sought the same opportunity. "
Immediately following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Gaines v.
Canada case, the General Assembly of North Carolina enacted G. S. 116-100
(the so-called Murphy Act) which provides that "The Board of Trustees of the
North Carolina College in Durham is authorized and empowered to establish
from time to time such graduate courses in the liberal arts field as the demand
may warrant and funds of the North Carolina College justify. Such courses so
established must be standard. "
[A review of the development of graduate and professional education for Negroes]
Date
1949-08-09
Creator
Carmichael, William Donald, Jr.
Biographical/historical note
William Donald Carmichael Jr. served as acting president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina from 1949 to 1950. Carmichael attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked for several years in New York City as a stockbroker before becoming controller of the university system in the 1930s. Between 1940 and 1960, he was controller, vice-president and finance officer, and acting president. He presided over the most extensive period of building and expansion in the University's history. Carmichael died in 1961.
Subject headings
University of North Carolina at Greensboro;Segregation in education--United States
Topics
School desegregation, 1954-1958;Race relations at UNCG
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
This eighteen-page memorandum from W.D. Carmichael, Jr., who served as acting president of the University of North Carolina (UNC) until 1950 to "President Gray" (possibly Gordon Gray, who served as president of the system beginning in 1950) is an assessment of educational opportunities for black students within the UNC system. The memo cites relevant case law about what level of provision was required and details activities and partnerships aimed at compliance. The recommendation was for establishment of more graduate programs at North Carolina College at Durham, the system's black campus and includes a tentative draft for an agreement between UNC and the North Carolina College. Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNCG) was a part of the UNC system.
Type
text
Original format
correspondence
Original dimensions
8.5" x 11"
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language
en
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
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Object ID
UA108CRG.0358
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
MEMORANDUM
To: President Gray
From: W. D. Carmichael, Jr.
Subject: A Review of the Development of Graduate and Professional
Education for Negroes.
#
In 1938 the Supreme Court of the United States stated that: "The
State must provide (legal education) for (petitioner) in conformity with the
equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and provide it as soon
as it does for applicants of any other group. "
In Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337, 351 (1938)
speaking through Chief Justice Hughes, the Supreme Court declared that ....
"petitioner's right was a personal one. It was as an individual that he was
entitled to the equal protection of the laws, and the state was bound to furnish
him, within its own borders facilities for legal education substantially equal
to those the state there afforded for persons of the white race, whether or not
other Negroes sought the same opportunity. "
Immediately following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Gaines v.
Canada case, the General Assembly of North Carolina enacted G. S. 116-100
(the so-called Murphy Act) which provides that "The Board of Trustees of the
North Carolina College in Durham is authorized and empowered to establish
from time to time such graduate courses in the liberal arts field as the demand
may warrant and funds of the North Carolina College justify. Such courses so
established must be standard. "
