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Virginia Military Institute - VMI - and Women's rights
Encyclopedia of Women's History - from Jone Johnson Lewis
Virginia Military Institute (VMI), a state-supported college in Virginia, did not admit women until forced to do so when a 1996 court case determined that state-supported educational institutions may not exclude women. VMI chose to admit women rather than lose state funding.
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