Bob Kerrey, when he served on the University of Nebraska’s Student Council, spoke and voted against a resolution urging student organizations at UNL to delete racial restrictions from their constitutions. The vote was 27:8 in favor, so Bob voted with a small minority.
Speaking against the resolution, Bob Kerrey cited Negro apathy as a justification for the Council’s not taking action. Kerrey quoted one Negro in the report as saying “It doesn’t bother me if they don’t like me because of the color of my skin, as long as they don’t say so to my face.” Two Negro students spoke to the Council in behalf of the resolution.
There was at least one fraternity at UNL in 1965 that explicitly barred African Americans.
http://gerardharbison.blogspot.com/2012/04/bob-kerrey-and-racial-segregation-at.html
