UA Campus Newspaper Announcing Silas Hunt Enrollment

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: UA Campus Newspaper Announcing Silas Hunt Enrollment
Creator:: Arkansas Traveler
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1948
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
People:: Hunt, Silas Herbert, 1922–1949
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: documents (object genre)
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: The Arkansas Traveler, University of Arkansas campus newspaper, announced desegregation of law school, February 3, 1948.
University of Arkansas -- Law -- Education -- Integration -- Fayetteville -- Washington
Negro Enrolls in University Law School ________ Arkansas AM&N Grad-- Combat Vet -- Accepted By BOB DOUGLAS Silas Hunt 25, Negro, will enroll in the University of Arkansas Law School today as the second Negro student in the history of the Uni- versity. The acceptance of Huns as a first year law student came after the Board of Trustes specified that only Negroes who are graduate stu- dents will be admitted to the Uni- versity and that separate facilities, including private tutoring in segre- gated classrooms, will be provided. Hunt, a native of Texarkana and combat infantry veteran, arrived at noon yesterday accompanied by Wiley Branton, Pine Bluff, an un- dergraduate applicant for enroll- ment, Harold Flowers, Pine Bluff attorney and counsel for Branton, and Geleve Grice, new photograph- er for the Arkansas State Press and the Arkansas A M abd N col- lege paper. Branton, as an under- graduate, was refused permission to register. "I think it is step forward in providing education for all people," Hunto told a Traveler reporter. The Negroes conferred with Rob- ert A. Leflar, Dean of the Law School, before Hunt filled out his application cards. Dean Leflar's statement to the Traveler is as follows: "We will carry out the plans ap- proved by the Board of Trustees in accordance with the require- ments of law as laid down by the United States Supreme Court. These plans involve a separate classroom and study room in the Law School Building. "I believe that the Law School students generally are desitous of cooperating with this plan. "It is my belief that the facilities furnished will be of the same qual- ity as those available for white stu- dents." The only other Negro student to attend the University did so under the Reconstruction government sup- ervision of 10872, the first year of the school existence, According to the History of the University of Arkansas, the Negro student was required to stay in an outhouse dur- ing school hours and received priv- ate tutoring from Noah P. Gates, the University's first president. He was not allowed to come about the building occupied by white students. [Included in this article, there is a photograph of Silas Hunt, below the photograph the words:] SLATED TO ENTER ARKANSAS LAW SCHOOL--Silas Hunt, 25, Tex- arkana Negro, fills out form for admission into the University of Arkan- sas Law School in the dean's office yesterday. A graduate of Arkansas A M & N. Negro college in Pine Bluff, Hunt was granted permission to enroll in hte school by University officials. The Negro is a combat veteran of World War II, serving with the combat engineers. He was scheduled to complete application this morning. Yesterday afternoon, after conferring with Dean Robert A. Leflar, Hunt searched for a place to live in Fayette- ville. EXCLUSIVE TRAVELER PHOTO by McCord.)
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1814
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1814/manifest.json
Additional Rights Information:: Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
Original Collection:: Arkansas Traveler, February 3, 1948
Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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