As publisher, Brown used pressure to persuade advertisers to accept blacks in more positions.
It accepted black and white students until the Civil War when it stopped accepting blacks.
They decided to take the Panthers to a community on the island for a dinner at a restaurant that did not accept blacks or Jews.
The founder, Hall Thompson, said recently that the club would not be pressured into accepting blacks.
It was one of the few private facilities at the time that would accept blacks for treatment.
Not long before Truman's order, a military panel suggested that white soldiers would never accept blacks as commanders or comrades in arms.
Some blame audiences for an unwillingness to accept blacks in a wide array of Hollywood roles.
Some scholars argue that for a time white Virginians seemed to be ready to accept blacks as full members or potential members of the community.
This being 1959, Welton has not yet been pressured into accepting young women or blacks.
The majority of whites have always rejected affirmative action and have never accepted blacks as equals.