University of Virginia Library

Discrimination Suit

October 11, 1962, "In the wake
of yesterday's federal hearing on
the suit of Hazel R. Adams, who
claimed to have been discriminated
against as a Negro in her attempt to
enter the University's Patrick Henry
branch college, officials there have
said that they are disappointed and
disturbed that the University presented
no vigorous opposition at
court to her admittance." It was
time for the branch colleges to find
out what the Charlottesville group
knew: you can't win with segregation
in the courts. There were black
undergraduates here by then.