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The Black Student Union wrote a letter encouraging Spring Fair to change the date from Passover. Not only would many Jewish students have been home for the holiday, but they also could not eat bread, harshly limiting their choices at Spring Fair…

In her article "The Enlisted Men in Paris," Elisabeth Gilman says of this canteen: "From three to six in the afternoon and from eight to eleven in the evening men come for a cup of chocolate and a sandwich. For the boys are as hungry over here as at…

A surgical procedure involving catheterization of the heart and its vessels

From Left: 1. Photograph of Carmela Ponselle with roses and long hair and inscription "To dear little Parepa [sp?] with love and success, Carmela Ponzillo." With mark from REM Studio, 145 W. 45th St, New York.

2. Photograph of Carmela Ponselle in…

This page from the 1940-1941 Peabody Preparatory Daybook lists recipients of Carnegie Scholarships. Students from Douglass High School, a black high school before integration, are listed separately from the students enrolled at other Preparatory…

After several years of listing Douglass High School students separately from students enrolled at other Preparatory campuses, the title was changed to “Negro Schools.” This makes it clear that these students were separated in this categorization…