However, he was fearful that “‘the faculty and alumni would violently oppose black students’”[1] who attended regular undergraduate classes.
At first, Dorsey was rejected admission because his courses were from a school that was not accredited by the Middle States Association, a regional collegiate agency.
In 1947, the Sidney Hollander Foundation started giving out awards for “outstanding contributions ‘toward the achievement of equal rights and opportunities for Negroes in Maryland.’”[2] Loyola College received the award in 1951 for not only admitting black students, but “for fully integrating minority students into both its curricular and its extracurricular activities.”[2] Even though he was admitted to Loyola College, Dorsey withdrew to enlist in the United States Air Force during the Korean War in May 1950.
then later an associate with other black attorneys, George Russell, Emerson Brown, Milton Allen, Robert Watts, William Murphy and Charles Josey.
Dorsey was also president of the Bar Association of Baltimore City and the first black lawyer of the Maryland State Board of Law Examiners.