Gov. Thomas E. Dewey yesterday signed a measure banning religious and racial discriminatory practices in admitting students to colleges and universities in New York and giving the State Education Department the power to eliminate such practices. The bill was based on a recommendation “by a Commission on the Heed for a State University, headed by Oven D. Young, which studied the problem of a state university and discrimination for two years.
In signing the till, Gov. Dewey said that it was another step “by the state “to reduce obnoxious and undemocratic barriers based on religious belief or the accident of “birth.” Discriminatory restraints, he declared, “are foreign to a country of growth, a country of progress, a country of moral leadership and a country born and preserved “by the sacrifice of those who thought they were fighting for freedom.”
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