UVa to Examine Its Segregated Past
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
University of Virginia officials say it is time for incoming students to learn about their school’s segregated past and how to be sensitive to classmates of all backgrounds. Administration officials say they became aware of the need to do something more about race on campus after students came in blackface to a Halloween party thrown by White fraternities (see Black Issues, Dec. 19, 2002).
A meeting will be held to develop plans for the education that many have said must occur at UVa, which didn’t accept Blacks until 1950.
