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1969 Press Photo
United Black Students press conference University of Miami
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In 1961, the University Of Miami Board Of Trustees voted to "admit qualified students without regard to race or color beginning in the summer of that year." This official integration of the "negro" students on the Coral Gables campus brought no strife. The student newspaper, the Hurricane, reported that black students primarily experienced indifference and stares from their white counterparts.
This initial isolation within the campus and surrounding community - which still resisted national efforts toward desegregation -shifted dramatically in the late 60s. Under the Presidency of Henry King Stanford, the United Black Students (UBS), which had gained formal recognition in 1967, formulated demands and met with university administration to push for higher enrollments in the number of black students, scholarships, integrated staff and faculty as well as the expansion of the curriculum to include the intellectual contributions of Africa and its diaspora. These efforts reflected a desire to reformulate the context in which integrated education was to take place.
President Stanford was sympathetic to the students' agenda and met repeatedly with UBS leaders. He had to mitigate their fervor with the slow pace of university administration as well as the criticism of an off-campus community weary of the advocacy of the civil rights movement.
https://scholar.library.miami.edu/umdesegregation/60s.php.html
This initial isolation within the campus and surrounding community - which still resisted national efforts toward desegregation -shifted dramatically in the late 60s. Under the Presidency of Henry King Stanford, the United Black Students (UBS), which had gained formal recognition in 1967, formulated demands and met with university administration to push for higher enrollments in the number of black students, scholarships, integrated staff and faculty as well as the expansion of the curriculum to include the intellectual contributions of Africa and its diaspora. These efforts reflected a desire to reformulate the context in which integrated education was to take place.
President Stanford was sympathetic to the students' agenda and met repeatedly with UBS leaders. He had to mitigate their fervor with the slow pace of university administration as well as the criticism of an off-campus community weary of the advocacy of the civil rights movement.
https://scholar.library.miami.edu/umdesegregation/60s.php.html
