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Article: Black Mountain College: A Pioneer in Southern Racial Integration
- Article from:
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
- Author:
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An experimental college for students in the arts was also a major innovator in race relations in the Jim Crow South.
Ten years before Brown v. Board of Education, Alma Stone Williams, a young black woman from Atlanta, enrolled at the all-white Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina. For a southern college this was unprecedented. It seems likely that Williams was the first black student in the Jim Crow era to enroll at an all-white college or university in the South.
By 1947 Black Mountain College had enrolled a total of 10 black students, and six blacks served on its faculty. This nontraditional institution has never received historical recognition for the critical role it ...