Beginning in the Forties short columns like the one seen to the right began appearing on the pages of the nation’s magazine and newspapers – snippets of text that indicated that the American people (ie. Whites) were slowly catching on to the system of racial injustice that they had inherited – and wondering aloud about the tyranny of it all:
Our hats are off to one Naomi Charner, who, in 1947, made the a heroic stand and resigned her post as vice-president of her sorority after it had refused to admit an applicant on purely racial grounds. Miss Charner, in the company of eight other co-eds, then proceeded to establish Delta Beta Delta on the Upsala campus, a sorority with far “lower” admission standards. The article concludes by making mention of a White girl who, some months earlier, was admitted to an all Black sorority in California.
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racial discrimination in the 1940sracial integration in the 1940sracism on college campuses1950s discrimination at collegeblacks in the 1950sfirst interracial sorority1st interracial sororityDelta Beta Delta first integrated sororityfirst interfaith sorority1940s racist sororitiesBlack sorority alpha kappa alpha admits white girl1949 Black sorority alpha kappa alpha admits white pledge 1949racial discrimination of sororities in college1940s racial integration historyNaomi Charner articleUpsala College Student Naomi Charner 1949
