The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-12-08
KENTUCKY SCHOOLS ADMIT RACE
Kentucky Court
Recognizes Rights
OF Colored Race

NEW YORK = The recognition
by the Kentucky Governors Ad-
visory Committee on Negro Edu-
cation of the right of Negro citi-
zens of that state to attend the
University of Kentucky was re-
garded as a direct result of the
campaign waged by the NAACP
to open the doors of state univer-
sites in southern and border states
to all persons without regard to
color.
The Governors Committee pass
ed a resolution at a meeting held
in Frankfort, Kentucky, last week
which recognized the right of Ne
gro citizens to take courses at the
University of Kentucky not dupli-
Gated at the Kentucky State Col
lege for Negroes, instead of &C.
cepting scholarship aid from the
state to take such courses outside
of Kentucky.
The committees report called
attention to the U. S. Supreme
Court ruling handed down Deem
Der IL, 1888, in the case of Lloyd
Gaines versus the University of
Missouri. This case was carried
to the u. S. Supreme Court by the
NAACP. In upholding Gaines
right to enter the University of
Missouri law school, the court
said
"By the operation of the laws
of Missouri, a privilege has been
created for white law students
which is denied to Negroes by the
reason of their race. The white
resident is afforded legal educa-
ton within the state; the Negro
resident having the same qualifi-
cations is refused it there and
must go outside the state to OBJ
tain it. That is a denial of the
equality of legal right to the en-
joyment of the privilege which the
state has set up, and the provision
for the payment of tuition fees in
another state does not remove the
discrimination"
According to an Associated
Press report carried in the Louis
vile Courier-Jour,aal, the commit
tee resolution named a sub-com-
mittee to draw up plans for the
1910 Kentucky General Assembly
which would include a provision
to determine the actual differ
ence" in cost to Negroes taking
higher educational courses in the
states that admit them, and to de-
termine how these courses might
be provided for them in Kentucky.
The committee also instructed the
subcommittee to survey the cours-
es given at the University of Ken
lucky and the Kentucky State
Teachers College, that are not du-
plicated at the state college for
Negroes and to determine how ma
ny Negroes desire the higher
courses.
That part of the resolution in
structing the subcommittee which
refer to the legal right of Negroes
in Kentucky to attend the Univer-
sity of Kentucky follows:
I'm addition to these duties and
recognizing the legal right of ELI
gible Negro students to enter such
courses in the University of Ken
lucky as are not duplicated and
available to them in the college at
Frankfort if any elect to do so in
stead of accepting scholarship aid
to go elsewhere for these courses,
(the subcommittee is directed
to consider and report what legis-
lation or court action may be de-
sirable to clear this matter, har-
monizing our State laws with the
United States Constitution in line
with the United States Supreme
Court decision in the Lloyd Gaines
case"
The Courier-Journal story said
that President Raymond A. Kent
of the University of Louisville
was chosen chairman of the COM
mittee in place of President Frank
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