I should have posted in September, October will do. Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) and Mercer University (Macon, Georgia) are both celebrating the admission of their first black students 50 years ago. These are private, church-related colleges that integrated voluntarily, not because of any court order. They waited until fall 1963 to integrate because the state laws in North Carolina and Georgia would have taken away their tax-exempt status as private universities if they had integrated earlier.