62 years later: Emory apologizes to medical school applicant rejected because he was Black
By Ernie Suggs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT “I am sorry I must write you that we are not authorized to consider for admission a member of the Negro race. I regret that we cannot help you.” That was nearly the whole response that a young Marion Hood got from Emory University on August 5, 1959, a week after applying to its medical school. The last of the four sentences was a postscript from admission director L.L. Clegg: “I am returning herewith your $5.00 application fee.” More than six decades later, on Wednesday, as part of its Juneteenth programming,…
