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Don't know about sororities. It is true that from almost the beginning a fraternity chapter from time to time might pledge a "non-white" but it was so rare that it was almost a novelty. No one reacted. Remember, this was a time in which most groups did not even accept a Jew!
After World War II students began questioning the non-inclusive policies, and at more liberal institutions they determined to defy the national regulations. Rather than quietly do it, as in the past, they did it very openly and challenged the powers to accept it. In DU a chapter not only pledged & initiated an African-American (there never was a written discriminatory clause) but made him their chapter representative at the forthcoming national convention. Since the fraternity was making a concerted effort to expand into the south, this so perplexed the national officers that they actually cancelled the national convention to try to sort things out. As with most other groups, the subject was heatedly debated for many years before it was resolved.
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