(AP) — Two men who helped integrate college basketball came back to Vanderbilt University this week to share provocative views on the pace of change, take up matters they rarely dared to address as students, and describe the racism they encountered on their journey — indignities they once endured in silence on the Southern campus. The return of Perry Wallace and Godfrey Dillard, part of a candid conversation unfolding this year at Vanderbilt, marks the latest milestone in the school's long, sometimes painful history with race relations. Today, as campuses across the nation see a resurgence of activism and try to come to terms with institutional racism, the wide lawns and stately buildings at Vanderbilt could not be called a hotbed of protest. [...] the school has more black faculty members and students, who say they're sometimes the only faces of color in a class but have more people to talk to about their experiences. Dillard, who was president of the Afro-American Student Association, pushed for more black professors and students and for better pay for campus workers. During the Lawson lecture, attended by the entire freshman class, Wallace, an American University law professor, encouraged subversive thinking, advising the students to "steal away" to a place where they could form their own opinions. Dillard, who successfully defended race-based admissions at the University of Michigan in a case decided by the U.S.
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BY SCOTT STROUD, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Fri, 09/30/2016 - 12:50pm
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