“…However, the first Black student to enroll at Kalamazoo College, Rufus Lewis Perry, who aspired to be a Baptist minister, did so in 1860 (Francis, 2008; Simmons, 2000). Antioch also was founded as coeducational but gave no consideration to race, yet gender inequalities were evident (Rury & Harper, 1986) and a controversy involving the admission of two Black girls to an affiliated preparatory school in the mid-1850s moved the board to set a specific policy to not reject a student on the basis of race in 1863 (Louima, Anderl, & Davis, 2013). For the remaining six colleges, I could not discern when or whether administrators revised college admission policies to allow specifically for the admission of students irrespective of race.…”