Traditional admission requirements were originally created as an intentional way to prevent blacks and other minorities from being admitted to historically white institutions.

These two positions are still voted on every fall by the student population, the winners nearly always being members of historically white fraternities and sororities.

Antioch was one of the first historically white colleges to actively recruit black students.

Still, it is clear that for many blacks enhancing black schools is a more pressing priority than opening up historically white ones.

Since 1963, Mississippi has relied exclusively on standardized test scores to determine admissions to the historically white universities.

The Mississippi system consists of five historically white universities and three historically black ones.

No such endowments were ordered for the state's historically white universities to attract more black students.

The state then proposed a desegregation plan that would have closed one of three historically black institutions and merged another with a historically white university.

A historically white church, First United Methodist began changing in the 1970's as black members became the majority.

The group sought to use the energy of the civil rights movement to open the historically white construction unions.