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Considering the cases of James Meredith at Ole Miss and Harvey Gantt at Clemson, Friendly said that "what might be a simple and quiet entrance of one Negro to one university could be transformed into a Roman circus, or indeed a riot, merely because we provided such an inviting audience and such a brilliant means for obtaining publicity." Friendly noted complaints that "the very presence of masses of reporters and photographers make what is already a difficult task close to impossible...
JOHN F. SCARLETT FRED L. WALLACE Clemson College Clemson...
Lessons Learned. Things were much different in South Carolina, last of the Deep Dixie states to integrate any public school for so much as one hour. There, Harvey Bernard Gantt, 20, a second-year architecture transfer from Iowa State, walked through the front door of Clemson College's red-brick administration building. Gantt's peaceable entry into Clemson, a state-supported school with an enrollment of 4,000, was a triumph of good sense and planning. When it became obvious that Clemson would be required to accept Gantt, a call for law and order went out from business...
...South Carolina's state-run Clemson College, which rejected Harvey Gantt, 19, a Charleston mechanic's son who made the National Honor Society in high school, went on to Iowa State as an architectural engineering student. Gantt's request for admission to Clemson is before Federal Judge Cecil C. Wyche, 77, a fair-minded South Carolinian who is expected to rule in Gantt's favor if Clemson fails to disprove discrimination...
Thomas F. Jones Jr., left his native Mississippi years ago to teach electrical engineering at M.I.T. and Purdue, is all for taking desegregation "in our stride." Already well in stride is Clemson's President Robert C. Edwards, a former textile manufacturer, who is foresightedly preparing his 4,250 students so well that some of them even paid a sympathetic visit to Negro Applicant Gantt in court...