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Former McGill professor Otto Klineberg delivers expert testimony in the Brown v. Board case.

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The Institute of Islamic Studies is founded.

[timeline_excerpt]The establishment of McGill’s Institute of Islamic Studies in 1952 made it the first such institution in North America. Founder Wilfred Cantwell Smith felt that co-education of Muslims and non-Muslims was essential to the study of the Muslim world.[/timeline_excerpt]

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Some McGill athletic teams begin to use Indigenous people as their mascots.

[timeline_excerpt]Beginning in 1951, McGill’s intermediate athletics teams in football and basketball started being referred to as the “McGill Indians.” In the 1960s, the men’s hockey team adopted the same name while the women’s team was referred to the “Squaws,” a slur referring to a hyper-sexualize caricature of Indigenous women. This use of anti-Indigenous slurs as […]

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McGill Law and Political Science professor John Humphrey drafts Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

[timeline_excerpt]Translated into 321 languages and dialects, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10 1948 and represents the first global expression of a set of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. While the declaration is not legally binding, its articles have been elaborated […]

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McGill’s wartime administration excludes students of Japanese descent.

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Maude Abbott is the first woman admitted to the Faculty Club.