Correspondence: Gilliam - Goodwin

Containers:
Box 2, Folder 28
Scope and content:

In a letter to a donor, Guy D. Goff, on 25 Feb. 1945, Earl Gregg Swem supported Marilyn Kaemmerle's dismissal from the Flat Hat for her editorial "Lincoln's job half-done" in which Kaemmerle had advocated the complete integration of African Americans into William and Mary and the ability of intermarriage between African Americans and whites, which was outlawed in Virginia until 1967. Swem spoke in favor of administrators being in charge of "supervision of what goes into this college newspaper." He further criticized Kaemmerle: "the young woman displayed a very decided lack of courtesy to the college and theState of Virginia" and he accused her of being "unfamiliar with Virginia thought and ideals."

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
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