Potential Preparatory Branches

Potential Preparatory Branches

Although the Conservatory had accepted Paul Brent as the first African-American student to officially enroll at Peabody in 1949, the Preparatory still did not accept black students. In 1951, when they were considering neighborhoods for new branches, their research included these lists of school censuses dictating “white only.”

Richard W. Case

Potential Preparatory Branches, Letter from Richard W. Case to Leah Thorpe, 1951 July 17, Folder 3, Box 26, Peabody Institute Board of Trustees Records, Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University.

1951 July 17