and you described the choices that women faced - or as my mother would put it - "It was the M.S. or the Mrs.".
My mother would tell us that her mother's brothers (her uncles) all went to college but the girls were encouraged to of course find a husband and get married (my grandmother eventually became a LPN). My mother and her siblings all went to college however and my mother's challenge to us was always "I got mine and you got yours to get", so it was a grand day when we finally "got ours". 
My father's father also went to Atlanta U (where his parents went) and graduated from UPenn Dental School (and although accepted to Penn Medical School, had been told they already had their 2 "n****rs" but he was welcome to go to the Dental School, which he did).
Bottom line - folks make a way. 
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