Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University Faculty Reprints 1-1-1940 Graduate Education for Negroes in Southern Universities Charles H. Wesley Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/reprints Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Wesley, Charles H., "Graduate Education for Negroes in Southern Universities" (1940). Faculty Reprints. Paper 204. http://dh.howard.edu/reprints/204 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Reprints by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Reprinted from the H arvard Educational Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, Jan., 1940. Graduate Education for Negroes in Southern Universities By Charles H. Wesley I The education of Negroes T h e decision of the United States at all levels is a problem Supreme Court in December 1938, which educators are prone to which was reaffirmed in January blink. On the graduate level 1939, in the case of Lloyd L. Gaines the difficulties beset a smaller vs. S. W. Canada, Registrar of the number with greater force. University and the Curators of the This dispassionate summary University of Missouri has directed of the present conditions by attention to the opportunities of the Dean of Howard Uni Negro students for graduate and versity clarifies the special professional education. This de complexities of graduate Ne cision emphasizing the "equality of gro education and indicates legal right” and the "equality of the general difficulties of the opportunity” of the races within the whole field.