{"id":179,"date":"2018-12-20T17:40:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/pathwaytodiversity\/?p=179"},"modified":"2021-01-01T18:37:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T18:37:56","slug":"the-first-black-faculty-members-at-rollins-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/pathwaytodiversity\/2018\/12\/20\/the-first-black-faculty-members-at-rollins-college\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Black Faculty Members at Rollins College"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eleanor Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Alzo Reddick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> in 1954 which determined that segregation was no longer legal anywhere in the United States, the South predictably resisted the order to change traditional educational enrollment. (1) In many school districts, white protests erupted in violence and kept black children from entering the previously white- only schools. For example, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, federal troops had to be called to put an end to campus violence in 1957.\u00a0(2) \u00a0Amid such violent protests, not too many educational institutions were eager to hire black teachers or professors.<\/p>\n

Rollins College itself was slow to integrate its faculty, only having around 25 black students as of 1969 and not hiring black faculty until 1971.\u00a0(3) \u00a0Despite this late start, early black educators at Rollins openly praised their treatment on campus and claimed to have a pleasant introduction to campus culture and life. (4) Even though most educational institutions were openly opposing the hiring and equal treatment of black faculty in these decades, the teaching experiences and later achievements by Rollins’ first black professors Alzo Reddick and Eleanor Mitchell seem to indicate that comparably Rollins embraced and encouraged these pioneer faculty, resulting in positive career trajectories for both professors.<\/p>\n

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  1. Earl Warren and Supreme Court of The United States, U.S. Reports: Brown v. Board of Education (347 U.S. 483. 1953. https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/usrep347483\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. The Library of Congress Exhibitions, \u201cWith an Even Hand:\u201d<\/em> Brown v. Board at Fifty<\/em>, \u201cThe Aftermath,\u201d (May 2004). https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/brown\/brown-aftermath.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. \u201cRollins Faculty Endorses 2 Of 7 Negro Requests,\u201d Orlando Sentinel Metro<\/em> (May 21st, 1969), Rollins College Archives and Special Collections.<\/li>\n
  4. Alzo Reddick, interview with the student researcher, December 4th, 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    — Heather Borochaner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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