September 15, 1948, Board of Directors’ Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

Title: September 15, 1948, Board of Directors’ Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Description: September 15, 1948, Board of Directors’ Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. The quota on Black students at Butler University ran from 1927—a year prior to the University’s move to its current campus—until 1948. The University’s Board of Directors meeting minutes provide no detail behind why the quota was started. This excerpt is from September 15, 1948, when the Executive Committee initially voted to rescind the quota: Dr. Ross presented the following resolution and moved its adoption. Be it resolved, that the Executive Committee recommend to the Board of Directors at their next regular meeting that a resolution be passed that no discrimination should be made against students desiring to enter Butler University on account of their race or religion and that all action discriminating against race or religion heretofore made, if any, is hereby set aside and declared void. Mr. James seconded the motion. All voted with the exception of Mr. Brown, voting “no”, and Mr. Reilly not voting."
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Provenance: Butler University
Type: Image
Is Part Of: Board of Trustees Records (UA01.01), Special Collections, Rare Books, and University Archives, Irwin Library, Butler University