THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 3, 1966

• Girard College desegregation ending ? - Philadelphia
• Agrees to admit African American students (1st time)

The front page has a one column heading: "GIRARD COLLEGE OPEN TO NEGROES" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 36 pages, some spine wear, light toning along the central fold, generally good.

Background: The September 2, 1966 federal court order marked a historic legal and civil rights breakthrough by striking down the explicit racial restriction in Stephen Girard’s 1831 bequest, which had strictly limited entry to "poor white male orphans" for over a century. Issued by U.S. District Judge Joseph S. Lord III following months of high-profile picketing led by attorney Cecil B. Moore and the NAACP, the ruling was exceptionally rare because it established that private, testamentary trusts administering public-like institutions could not invoke a founder's discriminatory intent to override state anti-discrimination laws and federal Fourteenth Amendment guarantees. Though trustees prolonged the battle with appeals that delayed actual integration until September 1968, Judge Lord's September 1966 decision remains a notable watershed moment in Civil Rights jurisprudence, serving as a powerful precedent for dismantling institutional segregation within privately funded municipal trusts across the United States.