 In 1966 the Graduate School of Theology of Oberlin College in Ohio merged with that of Vanderbilt, increasing the faculty resources of both the Divinity School and the Graduate Department of Religion, as well as the holdings of the school's portion of the University Library.In 1960, African-American Divinity student James Lawson was expelled from the university for his Civil Rights activism by Chancellor Harvie Branscomb.One of Vanderbilt's trustees, James Geddes Stahlman, published misleading stories in a newspaper he owned, "The Nashville Banner", which suggested Lawson had incited others to "violate the law" and led to his expulsion.