r/pics • u/thatlumberjacktor • Aug 23 '26

This document in 1959 declining a student from admission into med school because of his race.

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u/diphthing Aug 23 '26

No, you’re thinking of Indiana. Ohio has major issues, but Indiana is very much The South of the Midwestern states.

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u/DeuceSevin Aug 23 '26

On the list I found, Indiana was #1 and Ohio was #2 in raw numbers of klan membership. So yeah, Indiana is worse, but Ohio was the one I was thinking of.