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I'm not sure there was ever a time when black students could not enroll at Stanford. Ernest Johnson, a member of the class of 1895, was black. (And he chose us over the 59ers!) Moreover, he was admitted apparently at the personal request of Jane Stanford, which means the policy came right from the top.

That's not to deny that black admissions were seriously under-numbered at Stanford, a fact that the trustees acknowledged in 1968 when they announced a plan to significantly increase black enrollment.

https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/mag...e_id=35525

Okay, and there were highly educated blacks during active, legal slavery as well, but I think my point is valid.  A dear friend, who is black, says there were two blacks in his class (1967) at Stanford, he and a woman.  As he puts it, "I guess they wanted us each to have someone to date.)

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I'm not sure there was ever a time when black students could not enroll at Stanford. Ernest Johnson, a member of the class of 1895, was black. (And he chose us over the 59ers!) Moreover, he was admitted apparently at the personal request of Jane Stanford, which means the policy came right from the top.

That's not to deny that black admissions were seriously under-numbered at Stanford, a fact that the trustees acknowledged in 1968 when they announced a plan to significantly increase black enrollment.

https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/mag...e_id=35525

Okay, and there were highly educated blacks during active, legal slavery as well, but I think my point is valid.  A dear friend, who is black, says there were two blacks in his class (1967) at Stanford, he and a woman.  As he puts it, "I guess they wanted us each to have someone to date.)