IOWA PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU
Des Moines, Iowa
Independent Humboldt, Iowa
DEC 13 1955
A NEGRO GIRL IS SUI QUEEN
The male students of the State University of Iowa have chosen a 17 year old Negro girl, Dora Lee Martin of Houston, Texas, as Miss SUI of 1955.
Miss Martin said, "In Houston this will be the shock of the century."
And we might add that in Georgia, where they recently set up rules to prevent athletic contests with schools that did not practice segregation, it will be the biggest shock since the Civil war.
Miss Martin said, "It's not the color of the skin that should matter, it's just the person."
Which sums up the attitude of the 200 male students who voted in the contest. Miss Martin received 50 more votes than her nearest competitor.
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