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Originally posted by DeltAlum
That simply isn't true. My wife's grandmother had a college degree. That would have been in the early 1900's. Her mother received her degree in the 1940's. My alma mater granted it's first degree to a woman in the early 1800's. (Founded in 1804, it gave its first degree to a black man in 1811)
I will gladly accept that women had far less opportunity for college early on -- but that was more of a financial and family matter -- not a matter of rights. By the time I went to college in the 1960's, the number of men and women were nearly equal.
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Your wife's grandmother was the rare exception. Of course, the founders of NPC and NPHC sororities were some of these rare and exceptional women. Most women did not have the opportunity or the right to attend many colleges until the 1960's and 1970's. Until about thirty years ago, many colleges simply would not admit women.