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"Segregation exists even more emphatically at the level of higher education in America than in public elementary and secondary schools," Lawrence C. Howard, Consultant to the Higher Education Commission of the N.Y. State Department of Education, said Friday at the Law School Forum.
In the panel discussion of "The Negro in Higher Education," Roy Hatt, Assistant Director of Admissions at Northeastern University, Dean Monro, and James Nabrit, President of Howard University, supported Howard's statement.
"If you want to talk about the Negro in higher education," said Nabrit, "you've got to talk about the way the Negro has been passed up in higher education." He pointed out that while 11 percent of the population is Negro, less than five per cent of the people engaged in higher education are Negroes.
All agreed that poor public schooling handicaps most Negroes. "I don't care how much Harvard wants Negro students," Nabrit remarked. "If Negro students get shut out from all the New Triers, they are going to be shut out from here."
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