From the Commercial Appeal
Diplomas will be given to eight Negro medical students at the annual graduation exercises of The University of West Tennessee, a Memphis medical college for Negroes, this week at Church Park Auditorium.
What did The University of West Tennessee become? or did it get cut somewhere down the line?
(04-11-2009 08:31 PM)IBleedBlue Wrote: [ -> ]What did The University of West Tennessee become? or did it get cut somewhere down the line?
From what I read, it was started in Jackson, TN. It moved to Memphis in 1906 and folded in 1923.
Tennessee was home to few dozen medical schools from 1850-1920
Memphis was home to 3 medical schools once upon a time.
My point in posting this from the "Bygone Days" section of the Commercial Appeal was evidence to the fact that during segregation and 100 years ago there was a far greater percentage of the black population of Memphis in the professional class than in the very recent past.
Education, when under the influence of Booker T. Washington, and during segregation was more successful in educating blacks in Memphis than the current system. This discussion should be on the political board as that is where it was raised initiallly. This discussion (on the political board) was about how much better race relations were in Memphis during segregation than during the recent past and the fact that education of blacks was more successful during segregation than currently---and how the current system following Brown versus Board of Education poisoned race relations and led to the current disastrous and divided city government.
MODERATORS---PLEASE MOVE THIS THREAD TO THE POLITICAL BOARD
(04-13-2009 01:09 PM)jetigerman Wrote: [ -> ]MODERATORS---PLEASE MOVE THIS THREAD TO THE POLITICAL BOARD
Oh, the horror.
