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Box CUS.07

 Container

Contains 79 Results:

United States Navy, 1938-1945, 1952-1958, 1968-1975

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes photograph of Petty Officer Evangeline Geraldine Bailey, the first woman musician in naval history. Includes a fragile 1942 clipping titled "The United States Navy Belong to the Entire Nation," where the AFRO reproduces a full page of original pictures and navy department records of the period when there was no color line on any warships. Includes a cut of the Navy's Cross.

Dates: 1938-1945; 1952-1958; 1968-1975

University of Maryland, 1931-1939, 1945-1960, 1972-1981

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Includes 1935 correspondence regarding University of Maryland refusing admission to negro applicants. Includes a transcript of a 1954 conversation between Carl Murphy and Judge William Cole. Includes a copy of the complete Maryland Court of Appeals which orders the University of Maryland to admit Donald Gaines Murray, a Negro student, to the law school of the University. Includes clipping with headline that reads "Maryland U, First to Drop Race Bar, Enrolls 20 Negroes." Includes photographs...
Dates: 1931-1939; 1945-1960; 1972-1981

University of Missouri Law School, 1936, 1939

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes photograph of anti-segregation picketing at the University of Missouri's law school

Dates: 1936; 1939