Newspaper article, Petition Signers Recommend Rapid Integration Of MSU Staffe, February 13, 1970

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Petition Signers Recommend Rapid Integration of MSU Staff

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In this article, Hine reported that Industrial Psychology professor, Gerald Bayley, initiated the petition for faculty integration. Demands for immediate hiring of qualified Black professors indicated petitioners' skepticism that university administration would act. Black sociology graduate student, Rommel Benjamin, supported the effort but expressed skepticism that white students would accept lessons from Black instructors, professors or graduate students.

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College students, Black; Faculty, Black; Hiring; Integration; Desegregation; Education--Mississippi, Civil Rights
Civil Rights, Integration, Black Educators, Faculty Integration

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MFM_VA_The-Reflector_1970-02-13_Petition-Signers_001

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Lowell Hine, “Newspaper article, Petition Signers Recommend Rapid Integration Of MSU Staffe, February 13, 1970,” Mississippi State University Libraries, accessed December 18, 2024, https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/items/show/2819.

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