Kathrine Robinson Everett:
So, after the war ended I went to the University of North Carolina, after the University of Virginia turned me down. They wrote me they were 'still ungracious enough not to take women.'
Interviewer:
That was their wording?
Kathrine Robinson Everett:
Yes.
Interviewer:
They admitted to being ungracious.
Kathrine Robinson Everett:
They admitted it. And someone told me they did open the doors to women not too long after that. But Harvard of course had no women, and Yale, and I don’t think Princeton. So then I wrote to the University of North Carolina and they couldn’t have been nicer. They not only took me, but tried to adjust their schedule enough for me so that I could get in the courses I needed to graduate in one year there.
- Kathrine Robinson Everett, lawyer and women's rights activist
Interview with Kathrine Robinson Everett by Pamela Dean, April 30, 1985, Interview C-0005, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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