A white liberal college president in the Jim Crow South: Guy Herbert Wells and the YWCA at Georgia State College for Women, 1934-1953

Abstract

This volume presents an historical narrative that explores the inner turmoil of a college president who positioned himself between opposing political ideologies. Guy Herbert Wells, president of Georgia State College for (white) Women, had to manage the tension between holding true to his own values while working for a state system that upheld white supremacy