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In 1945, faculty and students at Chicago's Central YMCA College
walked out to protest admission quotas on race and religion and
created one of the nation's first institutions to admit all
qualified students. Despite having no endowment, library, or
campus, Roosevelt College attracted more than 1,000 students in its
first year. The next year, it purchased Chicago's famed Auditorium
Building. By 1949, enrollment topped 6,000, and the Roosevelt story
captured the nation's imagination. In 1954, Florence Ziegfeld's
Chicago Musical College merged with Roosevelt, and five years later
the college became a university. As it nears its 70th anniversary,
Roosevelt has six colleges, two campuses, and over 85,000 alumni,
including former Chicago mayor Harold Washington. This book
celebrates a pioneering institution that helped shape the history
of American higher education.
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