Racial Dialectic: Missouri Style.

LAW schools; BLACK students; RACE relations; WAR

SAINT Louis (Mo.); MISSOURIReport Available; UNITED StatesReport Available

The smallest law school in the world is now functioning at 4300 Ferdinand Street, in the heart of the Negro district of Saint Louis, Missouri. It is the law school which Lincoln University, the state-supported Negro university, set up in 1939 in response to the mandate of the Supreme Court in the Lloyd Gaines case. The Missouri pattern of race relations was further complicated when Saint Louis University decided last spring to open all its courses to Negro students. At present seventy-seven Negroes are in attendance. Contrary to the predictions of disaster, the non-Negro enrolment, despite the war, has increased 17 per cent since Negroes were admitted, the enrolment of white women has increased from 2,122 to 2,656.