So when his guidance counselor summoned him because “someone from Brown is coming,” Mr. Hale recalls, the Ivy League school did not register.
“Brown?” Mr. Hale remembered thinking.
Mr. Hale, who ended up accepting a full academic scholarship to Wesleyan University in Connecticut, could not have known then that he would be part of the first large cohort of high-school graduates to be shaped by race-conscious admissions.
Or that the practice would become a lightning rod for decades-long debates about racial justice, meritocracy and educational inequities.
Brown University was not the only college that fall to recruit for the first time from schools with high concentrations of Black students.
Persons:
Granderson Hale, Cheney, Brown, ” Mr, Hale, “ Brown, Mr, Charlie Brown
Organizations:
Philadelphia, Black, Howard University, Ivy League, Wesleyan University, Brown University
Locations:
Lincoln, Connecticut