Title

Hopkins to E. W. K. Willson, 2 December 1920 See all items with this value

Description

Hopkins tells E. W. K. Willson, of the Standard Homes Company in Dallas, that his letter of 13 November is not quite fair in implying that any new or unprecedented situation exists, because within Hopkins's knowledge there had never been any considerable lapse of time at Dartmouth when there was not a Black athlete on one of the teams. He recalls Johnny Overton, the intercollegiate half-mile champion and a Southerner, conceding a race to Dartmouth's Granger with his hand outstretched, and notes that Harvard had recently refused West Point's request to remove Matthews from its baseball team. The status of a Black student at Dartmouth, he writes, is his status at practically every college north of the Mason-Dixon line except Princeton and Yale. He closes by observing that if the time has come to change, the new attitude will be the innovation and not the old one. See all items with this value

Creator

Hopkins, Ernest Martin See all items with this value

Date Created

1920-12-02

Timeline Date

1920-12-02

Citation Information

Hopkins, Ernest Martin. Letter to E. W. K. Willson, December 2, 1920. Dartmouth College. Office of the President (1916-1945: Ernest Martin Hopkins) records, DP-11, Box 6767. Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. See all items with this value

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