"Bucknell and Susquehanna Erect No Racial Barriers to Negroes"

"Bucknell and Susquehanna Erect No Racial Barriers to Negroes"

Local universities reject discrimination in the admissions process; encourage black student acceptance, scholarship, and admission

This local news article from the 1960s applauds local schools, Bucknell and Susquehanna Universities, for making their campuses open to black applicants. The author makes it clear that Bucknell’s tactic is to offer funding for such prospective students while Susquehanna’s means are more scarce. Despite these efforts from the schools in question, black students are low in attendance and admission partially because neither campus/town has a very large black community already established there.

Author unknown

Local Newspaper

The Griot Institute

May 23, 1960

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