Stardate 20010910.1652 (On Screen): The war goes on. A top student woman at the University of Alabama has been informed that despite her GPA of 3.87 she will not be invited to join any of the fifteen all-white sororities on campus. She is black, and this is Alabama. The next step is for the University to start decertifying the sororities on the grounds of segregation, but it remains to be seen whether they'll go that far. Of course, while this case does demonstrate just how much remains to be done to break down segregation, it also demonstrates just how far we've come. Fifty years ago this woman wouldn't even have been permitted to attend that university.
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