stanbrown wrote:
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.
Thanks for noting this.  The comics we loved so much from this time were produced in an amazing historical era, and I enjoy the Time Capsules precisely because they capture not just the ink-on-paper joy of Silver Age DC, but the music, TV, movies, and events that were all part of the time.  Duke's campus is an architectural marvel, other than Cameron stadium, which is a giant post-WWII cement quonset that becomes a sauna in mid-winter when it is filled with students for a basketball.  The building is a pit, but it is the best place in the world to see a college basketball game.