"...she was told that if she ever dated him again, she would be asked to leave Lesley because he was black." from Diane Butterfield Borsnan '53

"...she was told that if she ever dated him again, she would be asked to leave Lesley because he was black." from Diane Butterfield Borsnan '53

Lesley University

From 42:18 of Diane Butterfield Borsnan's oral history.

Lesley University

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3.001 Lesley University Archives Oral History Collection, 2008-2010

Alyssa Pacy

Diane Butterfield Borsnan

"One story that everybody remembers is there was a girl in our class named Barbara Hoyt, very bright girl. I think she was from Chicago or something and I don’t know what the story was but her grandmother was her only relative. And she got going out with this boy at Harvard Law who was the handsome black boy. The next thing we know, Dean Thurber called her grandmother in Chicago and the grandmother came to Cambridge and this was a big harangue, big to-do. And she was told that if she ever dated him again, that she would be asked to leave Lesley because he was black."
42:18

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