Seventy years ago today (May 20) the Kentucky Kernel reported that, "University to Accept Negroes in Four Colleges." This followed the ruling in the Lyman Johnson case weeks earlier in which Judge H. Church Ford "declared that Negroes must be admitted to the graduate and professional schools of the University until the state could provide separate schools of equal or substantially equal educational opportunities."
UK President Herman Lee Donovan said that "two other Negroes, in addition to Johnson, have applied for entry at the University in the summer term, which begins June 20."
For the full story go to the Kentucky Kernel, May 20, 1949. https://exploreuk.uky.edu
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