captured on camera: white mob protested black students integrating university of georgia in 1961 /

In 1961,the University of Georgia (UGA) became the first college in the deep South to integrate. In January of that year, a judge ruled that Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were "fully qualified for immediate admission" and "would already hold been admitted had it not been for their race and color."The post Captured on Camera: White mob protested Black students integrating University of Georgia in 1961 appeared first on theGrio.

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