Bob Jones University's Tax Exempt Status

The birth of the religious right is very much tied into Bob Jones University wanting to be as racist to school as they can possibly be. They took in a single black student. He dropped out a month later for reasons that I'm sure are completely unfathomable to everybody listening. In 1975, the school was finally forced to admit black students on a wider basis, but they qualified that they were only admitting married black people. The fear was that unmarried black students might wind up fucking white students. Then don't have that. Interracial dating was strictly prohibited. So in 1976, the IRS rescinded Bob Jones University's tax exempt status. Paul Wayrich and Jerry Falwell were deeply unhappy at