Editorial Justice During WWII: Marilyn Kaemmerle's "Lincoln's Job Half Done"

This editorial from the Flat Hat (William & Mary student run newspaper) prompted the temporary suspension of the paper from publication, according to a 1985 publication called The Black Presence at William and Mary. Editor-in-chief Marilyn Kaemmerle claimed “Negroes should attend William & Mary,” though not at that time. Discussion of our collective biological origin, noting that “Northern Negroes had higher [IQs] scores than Southern whites,” and comparing desegregation to “…Nazi race tactics.” inflamed the conservative white administration. At a time when many believed in the separate but equal, Kaemmerle saw that freedom from formal bondage did not mean freedom from oppression.