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James McCosh and Princeton’s First Integrated Classrooms
by April C. Armstrong | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
James McCosh, Princeton’s eleventh president (1868-88), admitted African American graduate students into his classes and strongly criticized slavery and the Confederacy—convictions that angered white southern students attending the college after the Civil War.
The Murder of Frederick Ohl
by Grace Masback | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
In 1895, African American Princeton resident John Collins shot and killed white Princeton student Frederick Ohl. The racially biased news coverage surrounding Collins’s trial illustrates racial tensions still present on campus and in town thirty years after the end of the Civil War.
The Princeton Plan
by Meagan Raker | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
In 1948, after a century of segregation, the town of Princeton integrated the white Nassau Street School and the Black Witherspoon Street School with a system called the “Princeton Plan.” Contemporary reactions to desegregation revealed Princeton’s racial divisions as well as the Black community’s commitment to education.
The KKK and Princeton's 1955 Emmett Till Petition
by Ellen Li | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
When three Princeton students organized a petition protesting the acquittal of Emmett Till’s murderers in 1955, classmates dressed in KKK robes threatened their lives. Though the campus newspaper and Princeton administration characterized the incident as a “prank,” the event revealed deep divisions on campus over issues of racial justice.
What Princeton Owes to Firestone’s Exploitation of Liberia
by Jonathan Ort | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
Forced labor in Liberia built the Firestone fortune—and transformed Princeton. The story of Firestone, Liberia, and Princeton reveals how racist exploitation entangled and enriched Nassau Hall in the century that followed the U.S. Civil War.
Primary Sources
“An Open Letter to the Students of Princeton”
22 October, 1942 | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
Letter from Andrew Hatcher, a Black Princeton resident, regarding the debates over integration on campus.
“White Supremacy at Princeton”
September 30, 1942 | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
One of a series of Daily Princetonian editorials arguing for the integration of Princeton University.