"RABID INTEGRATIONISM"

I regret that Lincoln University's Law School closed too soon , wherever it may have been situated, within Missouri, St. Louis or Jefferson City! Our predecessors ' penchant for integration, exclusively, was most unfortunate for our posterity. Famed attorney Margaret Bush Wilson graduated from that law school. We accepted her as an "honorary" graduate of our Howard University Law School at annual Missouri Bar luncheons, that I used to host, due to Lincoln's now being extinct . That is the lesson that I draw from studying our history. We "educated blacks" were too willing to leave money on the table--as Dr. John W. Davis did in 1939 at West Virginia State ($4M)--that could have been used to develop his own graduate program; but preferred integration at the University of West Virginia for just a few . This tendency persists until today even. I refer to it as "rabid integrationism."