Letter from Margaret Clapp, Wellesley College, October 1951

Letter from Margaret Clapp, Wellesley College, October 1951

Clapp, Margaret

1951-10-02

College Students, Black

Faculty, Black

A letter from Margaret Clapp, President of Wellesley College, in response to Walter A. Groves' inquiry into racial policy at Wellesley. At the time Wellesley had one black faculty member and numerous black students; Clapp states Wellesley's policy has always been to admit black students on the same basis as all students.

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Office of the President
Wellesley College
Wellesley 81 Massachusetts

2 October 1951

President Walter A. Groves
Centre College of Kentucky
Danville, Kentucky

Dear President Groves:

We have one Negro member of the faculty, an instructor in sociology. Negro women are admitted on the same basis as women of other races. This has been the policy at Wellesley College for many decades. In the past two years, since I have been at Wellesley, the trustees have issued no statement of policy concerning such admissions, nor, so far as I know, have they ever had occasion to make such a policy statement.

Very sincerely yours.

Margaret Clapp

Dictated by Miss Clapp; signed in her absence.

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Clapp, Margaret

Groves, Walter A.

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts