{"id":15793,"date":"2020-10-01T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/?p=15793"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:01:15","slug":"may-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2020\/10\/01\/may-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke&#8217;s May Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Post contributed by Theodore D. Segal, guest contributor<\/em><sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>On September 26, 2020, Duke University announced that the Sociology-Psychology Building on its West Campus was <a href=\"https:\/\/today.duke.edu\/2020\/09\/reuben-cooke-building?fbclid=IwAR2dx4G9CQgwEqjtBF0DKego1x_iOq7LAghMgrX_P20qhBMGWiF5vUDsYaQ\"><strong>renamed<\/strong><\/a> the Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke Building to recognize Reuben-Cooke\u2019s role as one of the \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/spotlight.duke.edu\/50years\/first-to-integrate-duke\/\">First Five<\/a><\/strong>\u201d Black undergraduates at Duke and her many contributions to the university. A fitting honor, this recognition recalls a different time at Duke, one when Reuben-Cooke\u2019s election as the school\u2019s first Black May Queen stirred controversy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>Although by 1967 a number of longstanding traditions at Duke had been set aside, the annual practice of crowning a \u201cMay Queen\u201d endured. Selection of the \u201cQueen\u201d was a centerpiece of popular \u201cMay Day\u201d celebrations, a holiday whose origins date back to the ancient world. Villagers throughout Europe would collect flowers and participate in games, pageants, and dances throughout the day. It became customary to crown a young woman \u201cMay Queen\u201d to oversee the festivities. During the early 20th century, selection of a May Queen became common at women\u2019s colleges in the United States and had acquired a special meaning in the South. \u201cThe crowning of the May Queen as the ritual incantation of Southern society\u2019s ideal of femininity,\u201d historian Christie Anne Farnham wrote, \u201cwas a traditional event at Southern female schools. . . . The queen was usually elected by the students on the basis of \u2018sweetness\u2019 and beauty,\u201d Farnham explained, although the father\u2019s status often played a role.<\/p>\n<p>May Queen traditions at Duke dated back to 1921 when the school was still known as Trinity College. The <a href=\"https:\/\/library.duke.edu\/digitalcollections\/dukechronicle_dchnp62029\/\"><em><strong>Trinity Chronicle<\/strong><\/em><\/a> reported that 2000 spectators attended May Day festivities that first year, and that the two-day celebration was spent \u201cin gaiety and amusement.\u201d Undergraduate Martha Wiggins was crowned Queen of May that year. The school newspaper wrote that she, \u201cwore a lovely costume of shimmering white, bearing a corsage of white roses with her golden hair cascading in waves down her back, making a charming picture of perfect grace and absolute loveliness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15795\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2020\/10\/wrc.jpg\" alt=\"Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke poses at the Anderson Street entrance to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens in 1967. She wears a cardigan and skirt, and the Duke Chapel is visible in the distance behind her.\" width=\"400\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2020\/10\/wrc.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2020\/10\/wrc-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Given this context, it was newsworthy when Wilhelmina Reuben, a member of Duke\u2019s first class of Black undergraduates, was <a href=\"https:\/\/library.duke.edu\/digitalcollections\/dukechronicle_dchnp08052_dchnp080520020\/\"><strong>selected<\/strong><\/a> as the Woman\u2019s College May Queen in spring 1967. As runners up in the voting, white coeds Mary Earle and Jo Humphreys were designated to serve as Reuben\u2019s \u201ccourt.\u201d The Associated Press picked up the news, reporting that \u201cMimi, as she is known to her friends, is a Negro\u2014the first of her race to receive the honor at the women\u2019s[sic] college of the university.\u201d Chosen for her character, leadership, campus service, and beauty, Reuben had been selected May Queen by a vote of students in the woman\u2019s college. A fact sheet on Reuben prepared by Mary Grace Wilson, dean of women, described her as \u201cwarm, friendly, perceptive and sensitive to the feelings of others.\u201d Wilson called her \u201cone of the most admired and highly respected students on the campus.\u201d Reuben was a member of the freshman honor society and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. A student intern at the State Department, she was listed in \u201cWho\u2019s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. For her part, Reuben was pleased by her selection. \u201cI\u2019m still trying to adjust to it,\u201d she told the Associated Press. \u201cI\u2019ve been walking around in a delightful haze of disbelief and excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many at Duke were pleased with the news. Randolph C. Harrison, Jr., an alumnus from Richmond, Virginia, wrote to Douglas Knight, Duke&#8217;s president, that the \u201cundergraduates\u2019 choice of Miss Reuben as May Queen attests once more to Duke\u2019s greatness. What a step towards inter-racial accord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Reuben\u2019s election represented progress to some, however, the prospect of a Black May Queen flanked by two white members of her \u201ccourt\u201d felt like a violation of the established social order to others. Jonathan Kinney, president of the Duke student government, saw the reaction when he had the responsibility of \u201ccrowning\u201d the queen and her court. \u201cI kissed all the rest of the panel,\u201d he recalled, \u201cso I kissed [Wilhelmina Reuben]. There were a lot of boos in that stadium at that time.\u201d An anonymous alumnus sent the Duke president pictures of the \u201cpretty May Queens chosen at Peace, St. Mary\u2019s, and Meredith Colleges,\u201d all of whom were white, along with a picture of Reuben, \u201ca colored girl who was chosen May Queen at our Dear Ole Duke University.\u201d The alumnus noted the \u201cdeplorable contrast between the May Queens of other colleges and the stunning representative from Duke.\u201d He told Knight \u201cDuke Alumni everywhere were stunned and several in South Carolina had strokes.\u201d One correspondent, identified as a \u201clifelong, respected citizen of Wilmington, North Carolina,\u201d outlined with exasperation the problems that Reuben\u2019s election was creating at the city\u2019s annual Azalea Festival where May Queens from throughout North Carolina were invited to attend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Sprunt\u2019s annual garden party at Orton [Plantation] for the college queens (held for the past 20 years) has been cancelled; the Coastguard Academy, which was supposed to furnish her escort, says they don\u2019t have a colored boy available; the private home in which she was supposed to stay is not now available; and there are all sorts of complications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe crowd who elected her has done a <em>disservice<\/em> to her,\u201d the writer opined, \u201cand placed a no doubt nice girl in an embarrassing situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, two trustees weighed in. C. B. Houck told Knight that he liked and respected \u201cthe colored people\u201d and wanted them to have \u201cevery opportunity that the white people have.\u201d Still, he thought Reuben\u2019s election was in \u201cbad taste\u201d and that the \u201cEast Campus girls were leaning over backwards to be nice.\u201d For Houck, the symbolism was deeply troubling. \u201cTo select a colored person for May Queen and have white maids of honor flanking her on either side,\u201d he concluded, \u201cmakes for poor and critical relationship [sic] among many people, particularly in the South.\u201d Trustee George Ivey was also deeply concerned. Writing from Bangkok, Thailand, he called Reuben\u2019s selection \u201cvery upsetting to me.\u201d Even if the selection was by Duke\u2019s coeds, Ivey regretted \u201cthat the University has attracted the type of students that would vote for a Negro girl as a \u2018beauty\u2019 to represent the student body. It is nauseating to contemplate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By spring 1967, Duke had eliminated most of the school\u2019s <em>de jure<\/em> discriminatory policies and practices. Reuben\u2019s election as May Queen could be seen as another positive sign of racial progress. But the episode also shined a spotlight on the depth of attachment some still had to traditional racist ideas. These attitudes would become even more pronounced in the months to come as Black student activism accelerated on campus.<\/p>\n<p><em><sup>1<\/sup>Ted Segal is a Duke graduate (A.B. 1977), retired lawyer, and a board member of the Center for Documentary Studies at the school.\u00a0 His book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/point-of-reckoning\">POINT OF RECKONING: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University<\/a>, will be published by Duke University Press in February 2021. Special thanks to the Duke University Archives for preserving the historical records quoted in this piece and for making them readily accessible.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post contributed by Theodore D. Segal, guest contributor1 On September 26, 2020, Duke University announced that the Sociology-Psychology Building on its West Campus was renamed the Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke Building to recognize Reuben-Cooke\u2019s role as one of the \u201cFirst Five\u201d Black undergraduates at Duke and her many contributions to the university. A fitting honor, this recognition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2020\/10\/01\/may-queen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duke&#8217;s May Queen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":15796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,11,40,53],"tags":[185,91,856],"coauthors":[652],"class_list":["post-15793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-from-our-collections","category-rl-scholars","category-ua","tag-african-american-history","tag-duke-history","tag-traditions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Duke&#039;s May Queen - The Devil&#039;s Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2020\/10\/01\/may-queen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Duke&#039;s May Queen - The Devil&#039;s Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Post contributed by Theodore D. 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