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...Lois Sipuel Fisher, 27-the first Negro ever admitted (after a legal battle) to the University of Oklahoma Law School-got her diploma. Her record: "satisfactory...
Oklahoma, trying to cling to Jim Crow and still satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Sipuel case (TIME, Jan. 26), had set up a "separate but equal" law school for Negroes in Oklahoma City. Only one student-Theophilus M. Roberts, a waiter at the Oklahoma Club-enrolled. Negro leaders in the segregation fight boycotted the school (so did Ada Sipuel) and turned the heat on Roberts. Last week, he quit without ever having cracked a book. Said he: "I've bucked the Church, the fraternal organizations and the man in the street. The pressure...
...democracy and illustrate them by example, where in the world will they be illustrated and practiced?" Dean Snyder is one of the nation's top geneticists, and what he has learned from his study of heredity and what his university practices are two different things. Negro Ada Sipuel Fisher has been vainly seeking admission to the university's law school...
...states with Jim Crow laws, announced that it would admit Negro students to the University of Delaware to any course not offered by the Delaware State College for Negroes. The trustees said they had taken the hint from the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Ada Sipuel case (TIME...
...Oklahoma, which had jerry-built a law school for Negroes following the Sipuel decision, again refused to admit Ada Sipuel* to the regular University of Oklahoma law school. But when seven more qualified Negroes applied for Oklahoma graduate schools, a state regent urged that Negro graduates be admitted to Oklahoma-just to save the state money...