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The Legal Battle Over Desegregating Rice

The Legal Battle Over Desegregating Rice

A Zoom Webinar | November 5, 2020 | 6-7:30 p.m. CST

On Sept. 26, 1962, the Rice Board of Governors (now Board of Trustees) unanimously passed a resolution to desegregate the university, changing course from Rice’s 50–year practice of exclusively admitting white students.