Access Denied, n.d.

Containers:

Box 4, Folder 2

Language:

English

Other descriptive data:

Access Denied. On May 17, 1961two perspective students were denied an opportunity to enroll in the Junior College of Broward county( Now Broward College), which had opened in August 1960. James Vickers and Constance Nuby were told that their applications "will be processed for admissions to a Negro junior college branch to established at Dillard High School this fall"(Miami Herald, May 18, 1961) The date , May 17, marked the seventh anniversary of Broward V. Board of education, the Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation in public education. Vickers was named in the federal lawsuit filed on June 16, 1961 to desegregate the Broward County School System. At that time the junior colleges in Florida were under control of the local school boards.

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