2. Harper's Weekly Article on Del Mar College

The desegregation of Del Mar College not only pre-dated the US Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which the court declared racial segregation of schools a violation of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. DMC's desegregation was also relatively peaceful, especially in comparison to what would follow over the next decade--ubiquitous violence from white supremacists targeting Black grade school, high school, and college students.

The peculiarity of DMC's desegregation (nonviolent--though still problematic, as the article below demonstrates) made it a national curiosity. After the Brown decision, Harper's Magazine sent a reporter to Corpus Christi to get the story.