Editing Emory University (section)

=== Women's and civil rights movements ===
The [[Second-wave feminism#Education|women's movement]] and [[civil rights movement]] during the 1950s and 1960s in the United States profoundly shaped the future of Emory University. Formerly an all-male school, Emory officially became a coeducational institution in 1953. Although it had previously admitted women under limited circumstances, the university had never before had a policy through which they could enroll in large numbers and as resident students. In 1959, sororities first appeared on campus. In 1962, in the midst of the civil rights movement, Emory embraced the initiative to end racial restrictions when it asked the courts to declare portions of the Georgia statutes unconstitutional. Previously, Georgia law denied tax-exempt status to private universities with racially integrated student bodies. The [[Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)|Supreme Court of Georgia]] ruled in Emory's favor and Emory officially became racially integrated. [[Marvin S. Arrington Sr.]] was Emory University's first, full-time [[African American]] student and graduated from [[Emory University School of Law]] in 1967.<ref name="georgiaencyclopedia.org">{{cite web|title=New Georgia Encyclopedia, Emory University|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/emory-university|website=Georgiaencyclopedia.org|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=November 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129091141/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/emory-university|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:金大中.jpg|upright|thumb|In 1983, [[Kim Dae-jung]], while in [[exile|political exile]], gave a speech on human rights and democracy at Emory. Kim went on to serve as the eighth [[President of South Korea]].<ref name="Kim Dae Jung speech, 1983">{{cite web|title=Kim Dae Jung speech, 1983|url=http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/P-MSS111/|website=Findingaids.library.emory.edu|date=February 25, 2014|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805075529/https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/P-MSS111/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kim Dae Jung Facts|url=http://www.kdjlibrary.org/kdj/engweb/presidentkdj/facts.jsp|website=Kdjlibrary.library.emory.edu|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305025728/http://www.kdjlibrary.org/kdj/engweb/presidentkdj/facts.jsp|url-status=live}}</ref>]]

In 1971, Emory established one of the nation's first [[African-American studies]] programs and the first of its kind in the Southeastern United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apply.emory.edu/majors/african-american-studies.html|title=African American Studies &#124; Emory University &#124; Atlanta GA|access-date=October 8, 2020|archive-date=October 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012161108/https://apply.emory.edu/majors/african-american-studies.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Emory's diversity and academic reputation continued to flourish under the leadership of the university's fifth president, [[James T. Laney]]. In addition to leading universities in the Southeastern United States in the promotion of [[racial equality]], Laney and many of the school's faculty and administrators were outspoken advocates of global [[human rights]] and thus were openly opposed to the [[History of South Korea|military dictatorship in South Korea (1961–1987)]]. On March 30, 1983, Laney's friend [[Kim Dae-jung]], while in political exile in the United States, presented a speech on human rights and democracy at Emory University and accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.<ref name="Kim Dae Jung speech, 1983"/> Kim would go on to play a major role in ending [[June Struggle|authoritarianism in South Korea]], served as the eighth [[President of South Korea]] from 1998 to 2003, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for his successful implementation of the [[Sunshine Policy]]. Laney would later serve as [[United States Ambassador to South Korea]] and Emory graduate school, founded in 1919, was named in his honor in 2009.<ref name="georgiaencyclopedia.org"/>

In 2005, the university presented the President Medal, a rare award conferred only on individuals whose impact on the world has enhanced the dominion of peace or has enlarged the range of cultural achievement, to [[Civil Rights Movement]] activist [[Rosa Parks]]. The award is one of the highest honors presented by Emory.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://president.emory.edu/meet_president_wagner/presidents_medal.html|title=Emory University President's Medal|website=President.emory.edu|access-date=October 20, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415162003/http://president.emory.edu/meet_president_wagner/presidents_medal.html|archive-date=April 15, 2016}}</ref>

In 2014, at Emory's 169th Commencement, [[John Lewis]], the only living "[[Big Six (activists)|Big Six]]" leader of the civil rights movement, delivered the keynote address and received an honorary doctor of laws degree. In 2015, [[Emory University School of Law]] received a $1.5 million donation to help establish a John Lewis Chair in Civil Rights and Social Justice. The gift, given anonymously, funds a professorship which will enable Emory Law to conduct a national search for a scholar with an established academic profile of distinction and a demonstrated desire to promote the rule of law through the study of civil rights. The law school has committed to raise an additional $500,000 to fund the chair fully.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/04/law_john_lewis_chair/campus.html|title=Emory to establish John Lewis Chair in Civil Rights, Social Justice|website=News.emory.edu|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=October 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025173449/http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/04/law_john_lewis_chair/campus.html|url-status=live}}</ref>