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Originally posted by MIDWESTDIVA:
Eclipse,
I only know what I have been told by Black Greeks. Basically what I have been told is it did happen, it doesn't happen anymore, and everyone else was doing it too. I remember reading similar comments in the "Oprah" thread. I have never questioned the validity of this answer since Greeks know so much about their own history. It would be nice if this information was available in written form, but I don't think this is the kind of thing you would read about in "Through The Years" or "In Search of Sisterhood". I haven't read either of these books, so I may be wrong. (I'm not singling out these 2 organizations, I just know the names of their books off the top of my head).
I have never heard that Spelman was a school for the illegitimate daughters of White men. But I have read time and time again on GC that in the early 1900s, the only Blacks that could afford post-secondary education were wealthy Blacks who just happened to also be light-skinned. If you say that was not the case at Spelman, I have to wonder why that was the case at Howard?
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Midwestdiva,
I'm not sure why that was (if it was) the case at Howard, I just know that from my own personal research that there were several dark skinned black women in the first graduating classes at Spelman and that, to my knowledge, there has never been a stipulation that applicants sent in pictures or come in for an interview before they are accepted. That said to me that there were no "paper bag tests" there. Now, talking about who could afford higher education and who was excluded because of their skin color are totally different things...
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